This (arguably unhelpful) phrase seems to be taught across schools all over the world. What are some other phrases like this that are common ?

      • JWBananas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I’ve been hearing the Donkey Kong song in my head for the last 6 hours. If you know how to make it stop, I’m all ears.

        • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Things tend to linger when we don’t understand them or didn’t initially hear them well

          We reprocess them until they make sense

        • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Yes, I mean I have 10/10 visualisation/internal hearing/etc but the language denotation of “hearing” something that does not enter your auditory nerve is… odd

    • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ve never seen it with the x equals up front. It works much better when it starts with -b.