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| Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5981 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French | Message 1377 of 3737 07 January 2011 at 12:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You are somewhat disappointed to find out your Brazilian guide during your university exchange in Sao Paulo speaks English, but are beyond thrilled when she prefers to converse in Portuguese.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1378 of 3737 11 January 2011 at 6:54am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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...when you get a foreign language song stuck in your head, and while singing it to yourself you finally realize what the lyrics mean. Edited by Levi on 11 January 2011 at 6:55am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5081 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 1379 of 3737 11 January 2011 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Last night I dreamed that I was studying. I think it's nerd enough.
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| Thaorius Diglot Groupie ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5543 days ago 40 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2 | Message 1380 of 3737 11 January 2011 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Nerd enough would be if you added "...and I was having a great time" :D. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 1381 of 3737 11 January 2011 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I've done that. It's weird to have random lyrics playing in your head and then suddenly have the meaning of a phrase click that you hadn't caught before. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7132 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 1382 of 3737 11 January 2011 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
"Stiff neck" is just fine for this native English speaker. Where I live, if someone said he had a crick in his neck I'd assume him to be an elderly person from the countryside. If someone young said it, I'd assume they were trying to be funny. Ah, English. Just when you think you know it, another regional variation pops up. However, having lived in most regions of the US, I'd say that "stiff neck" is more widely used and understood. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1383 of 3737 12 January 2011 at 3:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
AND ...I was sorry to have woken up because I was enjoying the dream so much!" 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6003 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 1384 of 3737 12 January 2011 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Out of curiosity, which states would you say this applies to? I'm from Texas, but Dallas, where most people speak pretty standard General American English, and I never imagined "crick" would be dialectical or archaic. My mom does have a bit of a Texan accent, though, so I may have picked it up from her. On a side note, I only recently noticed how often she describes something as a "big ow" ("big old" but the l and d on "old" are dropped completely) whatever it is and it bugs the heck out of me. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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