Are You Using The Right Word? | DEVISE Vs. DEVICE

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Hi, everybody.
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I'm Jay from Simple English Videos.
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In this lesson, you'll learn how to use the words devise and device.
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Watch how Annie's plan leaves me horribly embarrassed
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and Tom in deep trouble again.
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And now today's lesson.
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
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Hold it, hold it, hold it.
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No, no, no, no, no. Oh, Goooooaaaal!!!!
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You are really good at this online football game.
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Nah, I was just lucky.
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Uh oh, the boss is looking over your shoulder.
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You two are playing video games on company time?
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What's with you guys?
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Is this what happens every time I leave you to your own devices?
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We need to increase sales, not play video games.
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Sorry, boss.
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Won't happen again.
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I need the two of you in a Zoom meeting right now.
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Sales are falling.
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We need a new strategy and a new way to sell our products.
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And we need it fast.
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How can we help?
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Annie, you find something, maybe a product
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or a tool that can boost our sales immediately.
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Something spectacular.
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And, Tom, I need you to devise a whole new strategy
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for the sales team using whatever Annie comes up with.
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Do you have any idea of what direction you'd like me to take?
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Oh, I have some ideas about this, boss.
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Let me work with Tom on sales strategy,
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and we'll find a new tool to boost sales together.
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Okay, team, let's make it work.
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As luck would have it
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Tom, I already sent you an incredible device
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each of our sales people can use to get people to buy our stuff.
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What is it?
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It's in a package right under your desk.
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I left it there yesterday before I headed back to Cambridge.
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It's a football.
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No, that's the beauty of it.
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It's actually the incredible Sales Master
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5000.
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It's a football, not a device to improve sales.
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That's the trick.
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Inside is a device that sends signals directly to the brain
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of the potential buyer and convinces them they need our product.
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What?
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How does that work?
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I have devised a plan to use it.
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You can teach each of our sales people to press the little barcode.
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They should press it while aiming the ball at the buyer.
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That's how it works.
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No, no, don't press it now.
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I only charged it up with one shot.
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If you press it now, you won't be able to show it to Jay.
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Why don't you show it to Jay?
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I would, but I'm not scheduled back in the home office for another month.
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You show it to him and describe the strategy we've devised.
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I don't mind if you take credit for the whole process.
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Go for it.
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Again, with the football.
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No playing football online or otherwise.
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Have you devised a sales strategy?
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Oh, it's not a football, boss.
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It's an electronic device that sends signals to the buyers brain
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and convinces them to buy our stuff.
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It's football. No, no, no.
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It's called the sales Master 5000.
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And here's the strategy that I've devised.
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The salesperson then takes this device
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up to the potential buyer and pushes this box.
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It sends a signal directly to the buyer’s brain.
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No, no, no.
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We don't want to waste the charge.
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We've only paid for one.
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So you should try it on the customer.
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Hey, Marcello.
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Hey, Jay. Did you come to play football?
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Not exactly.
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You know the products we sell.
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Would you like to buy one?
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Not really.
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But thanks for the football anyway.
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Tom!!!! Annie got me in trouble again.
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Right. Let's get on with the lesson.
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They use two words Device and device.
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Well, both words come from the same Latin origin
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DVD area, but they have different meanings.
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Devise use is a verb.
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It means to plan something in the mind.
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It's similar to invent.
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It's a transitive verb, which means that it's always followed by an object.
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The thing that's being devised.
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I need you to devise a whole new strategy for the sales team.
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Unless it's in its participle form devised.
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And here's the strategy that I've devised.
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In contrast, device is a noun.
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It describes a tool, method or technique
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that is used for a particular purpose.
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However, it's most commonly used these days
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to describe personal electronic gadgets
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such as a smartphone or a remote control.
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And you also heard the plural form
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of device, ‘devices’ in this fixed expression.
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Is this what happens every time I leave you to your own devices?
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to leave someone to their own devices
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means that a person is put in a position to do what they want
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without being controlled or influenced by anyone else.
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The result could be positive or negative, as we saw with Annie and me.
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We were playing video games instead of working.
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If you still find these two words confusing, just remember that
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the noun device has the word vice in it, which is also a noun.
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And that's it.
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We'll be back soon with another great video lesson,
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