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Ella

Ah_Yeah wrote: »

I hate how expensive things are in Dublin. I can get a full service at home for €75

Oh if i was only getting a service it would be fúck all. I need all new break pads, brake cables changed, Blades, other bits. If a garage did it they'd cost me over 300.

Stheno

Ella wrote: »

Oh if i was only getting a service it would be fúck all. I need all new break pads, brake cables changed, Blades, other bits. If a garage did it they'd cost me over 300.

I'm the same I've an indy mechanic who saves me a fortune compared to a garade

awec

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Honey-ec

I think I'm actually dying.

kate.m

I'm sick. No idea what is causing it though. I've a headache and keep feeling dizzy and 'nauseated'*. It has been nearly a week now but I'm hoping it will go away.

*apparently saying you feel nauseous is actually wrong in this context - I was corrected by an english student earlier while trying to gain sympathy

kate.m

kate.m wrote: »

I'm sick. No idea what is causing it though. I've a headache and keep feeling dizzy and 'nauseated'*. It has been nearly a week now but I'm hoping it will go away.

*apparently saying you feel nauseous is actually wrong in this context - I was corrected by an english student earlier while trying to gain sympathy

Ah now even I'm not that bad!

Hope you feel better soon

Lyaiera

I'm bored. I have three hours to kill until I head out tonight. But I'm really looking forward to going out so the minutes are crawling by.

kate.m

bluewolf wrote: »

Ah now even I'm not that bad!

Hope you feel better soon

thanks. Everyone thinks I'm just being lazy. Suppose it'll end with a trip to the doc.

btw- is that english student actually correct? I've never heard someone say 'I'm nauseated' before!

Das Kitty

kate.m wrote: »

thanks. Everyone thinks I'm just being lazy. Suppose it'll end with a trip to the doc.

btw- is that english student actually correct? I've never heard someone say 'I'm nauseated' before!

She's wrong.

Throw this in her face.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseous

Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become.

I think common use has "nauseous" as "I feel sick" now, but technically they are? I am not sure

DK's link seems to suggest otherwise

FouxDaFaFa

My Mexican friend wanted help with his english one day and asked me about the nauseous/nauseated thing. I had to research it.

As far as I know, "nauseous" is something which causes nausea. If you were to say "I feel nauseous" rather than "I feel nauseated" it's like saying "I feel toxic" rather than saying "I feel intoxicated".

This could be complete misinformation but it's what I gleaned at the time.

All this is a roundabout way to say, I hope you feel better Kate.m

You haven't started a new diet or anthing, have you? When my eating schedule was all over the place in college I'd keep feeling faint and dizzy because my blood sugar levels would crash.

dfx-

shalalala wrote: »

I wanna learn how to drive but I am afraid I would drive everywhere instead of walking. And I would get fat

I thought I want to learn how to drive, but I can get pretty much everywhere in Dublin by foot/bus/Luas/Dart.

So I let my Provisional Licence expire a couple of years ago. I leave the roads to the crazy driver people :pac:

IvyTheTerrible

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

My Mexican friend wanted help with his english one day and asked me about the nauseous/nauseated thing. I had to research it.

As far as I know, "nauseous" is something which causes nausea. If you were to say "I feel nauseous" rather than "I feel nauseated" it's like saying "I feel toxic" rather than saying "I feel intoxicated".

This could be complete misinformation but it's what I gleaned at the time.

All this is a roundabout way to say, I hope you feel better Kate.m

You haven't started a new diet or anthing, have you? When my eating schedule was all over the place in college I'd keep feeling faint and dizzy because my blood sugar levels would crash.

I find some grammar rules very odd, and they aren't really used by people who have learned English as a first language.

Example: I would have sworn that the correct phrase is always "consists of". I was corrected by a French coworker on a report, she said it should be "consists in". I thought she was crazy but when I looked at my Practical English Usage book that actually in that instance she was correct ("consists in" is used rarely but is correct in technical contexts when you are talking about how something works, while "consists of" means what something is made up of).

Ilyana 2.0

Although when I'm in Dublin there is no need to know how to drive, I go home every weekend and my boyfriend lives outside Dublin, so learning to drive is essential if I don't want to rely on trains and buses all the time. It'd be great to be able to drive from home to college door-to-door, and not have to deal with the rotten 145

Still haven't driven since I got mama bear's car written off. She won't take me out in the new car, her 'nerves can't handle it'

IvyTheTerrible

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I find some grammar rules very odd, and they aren't really used by people who have learned English as a first language.

Example: I would have sworn that the correct phrase is always "consists of". I was corrected by a French coworker on a report, she said it should be "consists in". I thought she was crazy but when I looked at my Practical English Usage book that actually in that instance she was correct ("consists in" is used rarely but is correct in technical contexts when you are talking about how something works, while "consists of" means what something is made up of).

What context? I've never seen it with "in". Can you give a sentence?

I always want to put a preposition with "comprise"

kate.m

Das Kitty wrote: »

She's wrong.

Throw this in her face.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseous [/QUOTE]

\o/
I'm actually waiting for an oppertunity to correct them now. :cool:

/may have got more annoyed than I should have at the mid sentence correction... -.-

From the medical section - it is ok to say 'I feel nauseous' in relation to being affected with nausea. I'll take it :P

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

My Mexican friend wanted help with his english one day and asked me about the nauseous/nauseated thing. I had to research it.

As far as I know, "nauseous" is something which causes nausea. If you were to say "I feel nauseous" rather than "I feel nauseated" it's like saying "I feel toxic" rather than saying "I feel intoxicated".

This could be complete misinformation but it's what I gleaned at the time.

All this is a roundabout way to say, I hope you feel better Kate.m

You haven't started a new diet or anthing, have you? When my eating schedule was all over the place in college I'd keep feeling faint and dizzy because my blood sugar levels would crash.

Thanks
Nope - no new diets, haven't started back at college yet either. I've just retured to my usual eating habits. I have started drinking chamomile tea - but that could hardly be it?

I did exercise three of the days thinking I needed fresh air but it didn't help.

Part of me thinks I should stop drinking coffee? (only have like 3 a week) - easy to do now but once I'm in college for 9am I know I'll regret it.

I'm at a loss and google isn't helping :pac:

I suddenly started feeling sick after drinking coffee last year, though I was on more like 3 a day
I can't really drink it at all now without feeling sick
Might have happened to you

IvyTheTerrible

bluewolf wrote: »

What context? I've never seen it with "in". Can you give a sentence?

I always want to put a preposition with "comprise"

I never saw it with "in" before but it exists.

Consists of: The cake consists of flour, eggs and milk.
Consists in: Making a cake consists in mixing flour eggs and milk.

However, commonly people use consists of all the time.

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=409897
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/61600/consist-in-vs-consist-of

I don't think I've seen people describe a process with "consists" in any way before
*racks brains*


Those darn commonly people!

Ella

I have to go to Ikea after work and i hate that place. Someone please go for me????

SarahBeep!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

IvyTheTerrible

bluewolf wrote: »

I don't think I've seen people describe a process with "consists" in any way before
*racks brains*


Those darn commonly people!

It's very annoying. I hate having my English corrected by foreigners.

Also, it just sounds wrong to say "consists in". And especially as I knew the report would be read by native English speakers, who would say "That's not right".

Duno, I'm running it through my brain a few times and it sounds okay
I don't think I would use it to describe something like that though

I know if you are used to hearing consists of all the time it would sound wrong!

Whispered

kate.m wrote: »

I did exercise three of the days thinking I needed fresh air but it didn't help.

Part of me thinks I should stop drinking coffee? (only have like 3 a week) - easy to do now but once I'm in college for 9am I know I'll regret it.

I'm at a loss and google isn't helping :pac:

Has your sickness been coming on slowly or did it just hit you? It sounds similar to the symptoms I had before being diagnosed with a B12 deficiency.

(Massive coincidence if it turns out to be that coz I just mentioned it recently)

cdaly_

For Ella (and targets... )

IvyTheTerrible

cdaly_ wrote: »

For Ella (and targets... )

I really really don't like the pink-tshirted character in QC.

Stench Blossoms

Ella what don't you like about it? I love IKEA.

Cerulean Chicken

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Ella what don't you like about it? I love IKEA.

I've to go soon and stock up, when we're collecting my wedding dress my bridesmaid is bringing her boyfriend's massive jeep and we're gonna have a great time in Ikea

Ah_Yeah

I work way too hard to be this poor.

IvyTheTerrible

I have to go to IKEA next week, I have broken every cereal bowl we owned as well as my lovely hand-painted salad bowl

I love IKEA, we furnished our apartment with stuff from there, so reasonable. But I do like to go early before it gets completely mental.