Timeline for My mobile phone has <something wrong>, so I'll get it fixed
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| May 31 at 18:21 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| May 31 at 2:20 | comment | added | Mazura | fritz informal, North American (of a machine or device) not working properly. "my computer is on the fritz" – OL (when you don't know what it is, like a cracked screen, then it's on the fritz) Anyway, if there's something wrong with your phone, then you need a new one; nobody fixes nothing anymore. That makes it not idiomatic. | |
| May 30 at 22:59 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Just to get it on the record: by far the most idiomatic and natural way to phrase this is the version they’re asking you to rephrase. “There’s something wrong with my phone” is eminently idiomatic, and it would not surprise me in the slightest if those exact words were spoken hundreds or even thousands of times every day by native speakers. The question is asking you to change an idiomatic sentence into an unidiomatic one. | |
| May 30 at 18:04 | comment | added | user8356 | A really obvious two-word replacement is 'My phone has "stopped working," so I'll get it fixed. | |
| May 30 at 16:58 | comment | added | TonyK | The test is totally wrong! It's as simple as that. There are many ways to rephrase [1], and [2] is only one of them. It's not the best, either, because "broken down" is more serious that "something wrong". (What were the precise instructions in the textbook? Perhaps we were asked to reqrite the sentence using some form of "break down"?) | |
| May 30 at 11:56 | answer | added | wizzwizz4 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 30 at 10:21 | answer | added | Especially Lime | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 30 at 8:32 | answer | added | paddotk | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 29 at 16:28 | answer | added | Edwin Ashworth | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 29 at 13:53 | answer | added | Kate Bunting | timeline score: 24 | |
| May 29 at 10:57 | history | asked | ElvaG | CC BY-SA 4.0 |