"It's gone out of head" vs. "I'm out of my head"

[Yankee]

Hi Torsten

It doesn't sound any less common to me than saying that something 'is completely gone out of my head'. Neither is a fixed idiom. Both are possible to say.

As I have already stated, the test sentence struck me as a whimsical way to say that you've forgotten something (and Alan's explanation of his intention has now seemingly confirmed this). My point was that there are other words with which you can be 'whimsical' about things that have completely vanished from your mind/brain/noggin. You have included one of these other words as an incorrect choice. I see no good reason whatsoever why 'brain' should be considered incorrect.
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[Yankee]

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The silence is practically deafening.
Should I understand that to be a complete rejection of my input?

Alan has been mighty slippery here. He did not say that 'be gone out of my head' is a common British expression meaning 'scatterbrained'. As I understand it, he simply explained what he wanted to convey and how he personally chose to convey it.

Has english-test.net decided to invent a new version of English called "Alnglish"? ;)

Another way of fixing this test sentence would be to change the whole sentence so that it tests something that actually IS a fixed expression.
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[Yankee]

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By the way, did you change the name of this thread? Or is there another thread still floating around somewhere called "head vs brain"?
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[Yankee]

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Still waiting for the results of the top secret talks between Torsten and Alan. :wink:
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[Yankee]

Helloooooooo..... Has this question been completely erased from your gray matter? I suggest that Alan use his noodle to think up a better distracter than the word 'brain'. :wink:

[Alan]

Hi,

[Yankee]

Hi Alan

For just this one test sentence, I've done a mind-boggling amount of work with my noodle already.
Why not finally fix the darn thing and be done with it?

It sure would be nice if this question didn't keep vanishing from your gray matter.:wink:
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[Alan]

Hi Amy,

I'm afraid you miss the point of the forums. They are not intended for native English speakers to demand that changes are made to the tests to suit their particular interests. By all means they can point out if they wish, errors of punctuation, spelling, usage or whatever, which occur from time to time as I know you have done and thanks for that. Unfortunately you have gone even further and are using the forums to make personal attacks on me when you find that your 'demands' are not met. This serves no purpose and hardly helps any of the members who are only interested in language questions and must be mystified as to why you persist in what you have described as your

[Yankee]

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I take your response to mean that you don't care very much whether the tests on the site are correct or not, or whether they're misleading or not.

I would like to add that there are many tests on the site which include language that sounds 'distinctly British' to my American ears. However, I haven't commented on most of those because I didn't think the difference was significant.

I think you miss the stated point of your own forum. You have obviously made it a point to simply not discuss points of view that differ from your own. And, for some reason, you seem to find it inappropriate for a native speaker of American English ask a question about usage in British English. If an ESL student wants to know why it's OK in your eyes to use 'by the time' to mean 'after', for example, you simply refuse to discuss the matter, choosing instead to simply make flippant remarks about someone else's explanation and/or opinion that 'by the time' is not used that way.

I see that you basically missed the whole point of my last post. Was that intentional on your part? My post was written as it was in order to illustrate my point about the test sentence itself. The test sentence does not use a fixed expression as it is written, and therefore one of the 'incorrect' choices is not actually incorrect.

Sorry, Alan, if you can't manage to discuss differences of opinion, then I guess you'll either have to ban me or just put up with me.
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[Yankee]

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By the way, could you please finally explain why you (apparently) think that saying "It's completely gone out of my head" is so very right and "It's completely gone out of my brain/mind/noggin (etc.)" would be so very wrong?
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[Yankee]

Your test clearly states that 'brain' is incorrect. But it shouldn't be. (Or have you changed that in the meantime?)

Your last post is an excellent example of a non-answer.

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I see that you have now deleted your last post, Alan. That's something that I don't have the ability to do. Your deletion has turned your non-answer into a non-existent non-answer now. :roll:
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[Gabriela]

O boy... here in USA i usually hear "out of my mind"... I don't know which one would I pick...probably "head" rather than "brain" if you thing about it head is a closed object that has space inside, therefore you could get OUT of this space, but how would you get OUT of brain that doesn't have any space inside... ? I guess I would pick "head"
well after all this talking I sure will remember which one is right :)

[Yankee]

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Oh, dear. Has Alan's test misled you into believing that only 'head' is correct? :shock:

Gabriela, this test question has absolutely nothing to do with the idiom 'out of one's head/mind'. That idiom has not been used in the test sentence. That's the problem.
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[Alan]

Hi,

Don't you dare suggest I have misled one of our members! You really push your luck, don't you?

Alan
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