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| In Britain, it's called "a sick note". |
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| Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:11 am vocabulary help please |
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| In the US, it's often officially called a "medical excuse note", which also shows up in a few UK sources. In ordinary speech, Americans just call it a "doctor's note" or "a note from the doctor". |
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| Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:41 pm Vocabulary help (being unfit for work?) |
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thank you
so i can i've a sick note/ doctor's note and therefore i'm on sick leave? |
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| Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:43 pm Vocabulary help (being unfit for work?) |
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| my_am wrote: | thank you
so i can i've a sick note/ doctor's note and therefore i'm on sick leave? |
Yes. You can also say you're "off sick".
By the way, if you call in sick and stay home someday, but you're not really sick, that's called a "mental health day". |
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| Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:54 pm Vocabulary help (being unfit for work?) |
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| Quote: | | a "mental health day" |
Are you serious, Jamie? 
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| Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:59 pm Vocabulary help (being unfit for work?) |
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| Yankee wrote: | | Quote: | | a "mental health day" |
Are you serious, Jamie? |
Yes, that's what people have called it for many, many decades, as far as I know.
"I didn't feel like dealing with my boss today, so I took a mental health day."
"I took a mental health day, because I wasn't prepared for the meeting."
"It was the Tigers' opening day, so a few of us took a mental health day and saw the game." |
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| Mon Apr 14, 2008 17:07 pm Vocabulary help (being unfit for work?) |
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Hi Jamie
I don't recall having heard that expression before. Is it used strictly informally?
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| Mon Apr 14, 2008 18:04 pm Vocabulary help (being unfit for work?) |
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| Yankee wrote: | | I don't recall having heard that expression before. Is it used strictly informally? |
It's informal, of course. I know it's been used since long before you would have moved to Germany. |
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| Mon Apr 14, 2008 19:08 pm Vocabulary help (being unfit for work?) |
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Hi Alex
I'd have understood the meaning in context. It's just that I don't hear it used as any sort of 'fixed' expression around here.
There are local dialects in the US, but I've always had the distinct impression that the dialects that exist in the UK are more diverse and far more numerous (proportionately speaking).
Heck, in the US, even the people from Pittsburgh claim to have their own 'dialect'. However, if you came to the US and spent 4 weeks in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), then 4 weeks in Hartford (Connecticut), I bet you'd have a hard time noticing any difference in the language at all. And those two cities are almost 500 miles apart!
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| Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:16 am Vocabulary help (being unfit for work?) |
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[quote="Jamie (K)"] | my_am wrote: | | By the way, if you call in sick and stay home someday, but you're not really sick, that's called a "mental health day". |
mental health day sounds weird  but i like the idea. might that be the very same day, women can use if they have troubles due to their mens? a friend told me that there was the option to take a day off then in the states. i had troubles believing that though |
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| Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:39 am Vocabulary help (being unfit for work?) |
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| my_am wrote: | | mental health day sounds weird but i like the idea. might that be the very same day, women can use if they have troubles due to their mens? a friend told me that there was the option to take a day off then in the states. i had troubles believing that though |
There is no official day off for menstruation in any American workplace I've ever heard of. If a woman wants to take a day off for that, she has to take one of her regular sick days. I used to be cooperative when a coworker of mine took days off for that (after all, I'm not a woman, so how would I know?), until a girlfriend of mine who was a manager at another company barked, "I have a problem with women who take cramp days!"
Anyway, there's no one official law for the whole country or for every workplace as to how many days people can take off for what. |
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