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Get it done or have it done.
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When someone performs a service for you, should you say have it done or get it done?
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Hello, Aubrey. What's shaking?
Not too much. How are you?
Good. We're recording today on a Friday and it's sunny out.
So I'm very excited to be done with work and get outside.
But I do have a question for you, Aubrey.
You ready? Okay. Yes.
Do you get your hair or your nails done often?
Are you always in the salon getting a mani -pedi and a salon visit?
No, absolutely not.
I can't stand a pedicure because my feet are too ticklish.
Like don't touch my feet.
right expensive my daughter put on like glue like Lee I don't know press on nails yeah and she's 10 she couldn't tie her shoes she couldn't hold a pencil I'm like you have to take these off they're just impractical yeah that's pretty funny no I also am not a big salon goer maybe a few times a year max for the hair and that's it yeah so yeah and haircuts are expensive in fact my husband just this morning was cutting his hair with a flowbie I don't know if you've heard of that it's like a vacuum that attaches to hair cutting tools.
Wow, that's so he's like sort of vacuums up the hair as it cuts.
It's actually kind of amazing.
I'm curious if any of our listeners use a Flowbee.
But I want to know, did he take like a Flowbee training course?
You know, did he take a course to know how to use the Flowbee properly?
Because it feels like I would still mess things up.
Even if I had a tool.
It does seem like you could, you know, have it be a disaster.
He's been using it for years.
He's probably had it for 20 years.
So it's pretty impressive.
Wow, think about how much money he saved over the years.
I know, right? He probably did watch a tutorial or two.
There were definitely instructions.
And I think there was a learning curve the first couple of times he maybe had to go to a barber to have him clean it up after.
Right. I think the stakes are usually lower for guys.
You could just, yeah, just kind of cut it a little bit.
Just shave my head.
Just shave it off. We'll start over.
Right. Right. Yeah.
So I love that we started off the episode today with, I asked you, do you get your hair or nails done often?
So talking about getting something done or having something done?
Yes, we got a great question about this and we're going to share details about this today with some fun examples.
So let's get into this.
All right. I'm going to read the listener question, but before I read our question from Sophia, I want to remind our listeners, guys, hit the follow button right now to make sure you get five episodes a week of All Aars English.
All right. Absolutely.
Here it is. How are you?
I'm Sophia. I just want to say thanks for answering my questions i often can't find answers online so your insights are really helpful i have a quick question about the phrases get it done and have it done they both seem to mean completing something but i'm not totally clear on when to use each one could you help clarify the difference and maybe share a few examples thank you so much best sophia that is a great question aubrey yes it is a really good question these have the same meaning they're both use to talk about something we can't do for ourselves, something we have to have or get someone
else to do for us. But get done is more informal.
And I asked a few people what they use more.
And where I live, at least in this regional dialect, quite a few people said they thought they felt like have something done felt very formal to them.
They said, I always say, get done.
I got to get this done.
Yeah, I agree. I think it's definitely more formal, for sure.
I might choose. Yeah, but let's go.
Let's explore. Let's explore.
So yeah, we'll dive into both with examples and kind of share if one feels often.
It's definitely interchangeable.
Don't stress about this too much.
They mean the same thing.
People will understand you, but get often the verb get often make something informal.
All of the different verbs we make with get are going to be more informal.