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| genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5466 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1385 of 3737 12 January 2011 at 4:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've lived on the west and east coasts and I've always heard stiff neck except from my grandmother who used crick.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1386 of 3737 12 January 2011 at 4:53am | IP Logged | |||||
I'm more likely to say "stiff neck" myself. Around these parts if you say you have a "crick" in your neck people might think you have a creek in your neck! Edited by Levi on 12 January 2011 at 4:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1387 of 3737 12 January 2011 at 10:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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And now all of you have proven how nerdy you are by discussing "stiff neck" vs. "cricket" over several pages in a completely unrelated thread. Congratulations!
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| RogerK Triglot Groupie Austria Joined 5073 days ago 92 posts - 181 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian Studies: Portuguese | Message 1388 of 3737 12 January 2011 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you’re a language nerd when...
You have multiple books in various languages next to your bed and when you look forward to breakfast so that you can read that day's lesson from the various foreign language calendars next to your dinning table. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5184 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1389 of 3737 13 January 2011 at 3:45am | IP Logged | |||||
To continue the discussion of crick in the neck vs a stiff neck, neither would sound strange to me, but I also wouldn't use either of them. I'd probably just say my neck hurts, or possibly I have a pain in my neck. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sjheiss Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5682 days ago 100 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English*, Basque | Message 1390 of 3737 13 January 2011 at 4:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hmm, I only have 50 language books, not enough. :(
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1391 of 3737 13 January 2011 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When sleep becomes even more disrupted, and you start dreaming you're a contestant on Polyglot Blind Date, with the unenviable task of picking one out of three lovely languages hidden behind the screen.
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1392 of 3737 13 January 2011 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When your girlfriend finishes her exam early while you're walking around the park near uni and your first thoughts are "damn, if she hadn't finished early, I'd have been able to read 20 mins of my grammar book before our going home - or maybe I should have just skipped this walk".
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