You people and your English !

So I googled the phrase 'tired to death' cause I wanted to see if people actually say that.
And just look at all the synonyms...

Synonyms to tired to death:

worn out, abandoned, abjured, ablated, all in, antiquated, antique, archaic, ausgespielt, beat, beat up, beaten, bone-weary, burned-out, burnt up, bushed, consumed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired ,deadbeat, depleted, deserted, devitalized, disabled, discontinued, dissipated, disused, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, done with, drained, eaten up, effete, emptied, enervated, enfeebled, eroded, eviscerated, exhausted, fagged out, far-gone, fatigued, finished, frazzled, gone, impoverished, incapacitated, jaded, knocked out, laid low, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, past use, pensioned off, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ready to drop, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, run-down, sapped, shotten, spent, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, tired, tired out, tuckered out, used up, washed-up, wasted, weakened, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, worn, worn away


I didn't know half of these words existed.
Also, why is ausgespielt here ? That doesn't sound too English.

 

What do you mean.. "you people"?

 

english has a lot of german roots. and latin roots. and root roots. i know most of those words because i'm a nerd.... though i can tell you have never heard an american say he is "fagged out"

 

Native speakers. I don't think they even use half of these expressions.

 

who the hell ever says tired to death?

 

English is a magpie language. It has all kinds of words in it.

And googling words to see if people use them, probably not the best method, eh?

 

I've never heard anyone say"tired to death"...

A Lucifer was once Brit slang for a match. It way still be for all I know.

 

Makes sense in Croatian, so I wanted to see if I could literally translate it. Yeah.

 

:blush5:

 

Makes sense in Czech as well.

And I'm scared of all those synonyms... nope.. I'll never speak English that good..

 

yea...

i've heard 'deathly tired' before

 

Never heard of it...

.. But I don't go to or talk about matches.

 

Sorry, I couldn't resist

I can't speak any other language, though I wish I could.

 

Ummm....Why don't you just learn one ?
Or two.

 

laziness. I don't know if you said you wished you could fly would you instantly run off to pilot school?

 

the good thing about there being a lot of English words... you can make an essay sound really intellectual if you have a thesaurus handy.

 

Sorry.

Yeah.. as Piaf said, why don't you just learn one..?

 

No, but I also think that speaking another language besides your own is important.

 

Reminds me..

What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call a person who speaks one language? American.

 

I agree. I just have yet to take the first step. You guys think rosetta stone is any good?