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Olympia
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 Message 1377 of 3737
07 January 2011 at 12:08am | IP Logged 
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
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 Message 1378 of 3737
11 January 2011 at 6:54am | IP Logged 
...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

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Matheus
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 Message 1379 of 3737
11 January 2011 at 1:47pm | IP Logged 
Last night I dreamed that I was studying. I think it's nerd enough.
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Thaorius
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 Message 1380 of 3737
11 January 2011 at 2:26pm | IP Logged 
Matheus wrote:
Last night I dreamed that I was studying. I think it's nerd
enough.

Nerd enough would be if you added "...and I was having a great time" :D.
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 Message 1381 of 3737
11 January 2011 at 3:55pm | IP Logged 
Levi wrote:
...when you get a foreign language song stuck in your head, and while singing it to yourself you finally realize what the lyrics mean.


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.
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seldnar
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 Message 1382 of 3737
11 January 2011 at 4:31pm | IP Logged 
kottoler.ello wrote:
karaipyhare wrote:

When you wake up with a big pain in the neck (I didn't know it hurt so much!) and the
first thing that pops out your head is "stiff neck", although you don't remember ever
having heard or read or learned that expression (English is not your mother tongue). So
you think your still-in-deep-dream-state mind just made that up. You jump off the bed
and go over the internet (despite the enormous pain it causes to move so abruptly)
because you HAVE TO verify if those words are correct and proper English. And yes they
are! It's not your mind playing tricks on you.


Although saying you have a "stiff neck" is neither wrong nor unintelligible, it's more common and idiomatic to
describe it as having a "crick" in one's neck, just fyi :)


"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.
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psy88
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 Message 1383 of 3737
12 January 2011 at 3:42am | IP Logged 
Thaorius wrote:
Matheus wrote:
Last night I dreamed that I was studying. I think it's nerd
enough.

Nerd enough would be if you added "...and I was having a great time" :D.


AND ...I was sorry to have woken up because I was enjoying the dream so much!"
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kottoler.ello
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 Message 1384 of 3737
12 January 2011 at 4:06am | IP Logged 
seldnar wrote:
kottoler.ello wrote:
karaipyhare wrote:

When you wake up with a big pain in the neck (I didn't know it hurt so much!) and the
first thing that pops out your head is "stiff neck", although you don't remember ever
having heard or read or learned that expression (English is not your mother tongue). So
you think your still-in-deep-dream-state mind just made that up. You jump off the bed
and go over the internet (despite the enormous pain it causes to move so abruptly)
because you HAVE TO verify if those words are correct and proper English. And yes they
are! It's not your mind playing tricks on you.


Although saying you have a "stiff neck" is neither wrong nor unintelligible, it's more common and idiomatic to
describe it as having a "crick" in one's neck, just fyi :)


"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.


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.


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