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| kmart Senior Member Australia Joined 6128 days ago 194 posts - 400 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 9 of 23 21 March 2011 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
Seconded. But to be more specific, we'd usually only use "in hospital" if we were an admitted patient eg "I'm in hospital with pneumonia", but "I'm at the hospital getting stitched up after an unfortunate tackle at footy practice". ;-) 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5190 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 10 of 23 22 March 2011 at 2:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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| oz-hestekræfte Senior Member Australia Joined 5682 days ago 103 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish | Message 11 of 23 26 March 2011 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This has got me wondering. Do Americans say "in prison"? I know we do and it's exactly the same thing as "in hospital".
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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5700 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 12 of 23 26 March 2011 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, I would say in prison with the same meaning as in hospital. (though I would never say the latter, and hopefully won't need to say the former either) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4711 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 13 of 23 16 March 2012 at 12:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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I would actually say "can't talk to you right now" as opposed to with you, and find that much more bothersome than the (lack of an) article choice...
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5960 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 14 of 23 16 March 2012 at 1:11am | IP Logged | |||||
Interesting. I am exactly the opposite, at least if I am referring to a human and pretending that it will be a dialogue. I talk to a dog, a bothersome child or an angry mob of irrate villagers because I do not expect a response, but I am inclined to talk with adult humans and awesome kids as I do not intend to entirely monopolize the conversation. I hear "talk to" all the time, so I don't say at all that it is wrong, just saying.
EXCELLENT, ARE WE DOING THE YELLING THING NOW? 'CAUSE IF WE ARE, I SHOULD WARN YOU ALL I CAN YELL REALLY LOUDLY. Edited by Spanky on 16 March 2012 at 1:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mr_intl_dj Newbie United States Joined 6688 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English | Message 15 of 23 16 March 2012 at 1:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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Grammatically, "I'm in the hospital can't talk now" is incorrect. Colloquially, people do say it, but in a different way, especially when (they are) frustrated. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4672 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 16 of 23 16 March 2012 at 9:35am | IP Logged | |||||
I don't know, but they say IN THE FUTURE instead of IN FUTURE ;) There must be something about the article. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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