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Frage:	Ich zählte in Gedanken mein Geld.
DE > EN	#231973 von ~~Wuffke~~ (DE), 2007-05-31, 08:22 Spam? How can I express this in a nice English? Oddly enough all dictionaries fail despite it is a very common thing to do, and it happens every day.

Antwort:	.. like DD in Entenhausen ?? dollar/pounds.euro signs in the eyes ...???	#231976
	von sunfunlili (DE/GB), 2007-05-31, 08:30 Spam?

Antwort:	I was counting the money in my head....	#231977
	von Jever (GB/FR), 2007-05-31, 08:34 Spam?

Antwort:	"Totting up"	#231980
	von jim (GB), 2007-05-31, 08:54 Spam? "I was mentally totting up my finances." (about as colloquial as it gets!)

Antwort:	Thank you!	#232001
	von ~~Wuffke~~ (DE), 2007-05-31, 10:39 Spam? It is rather a poor boy who was inviting a rich girl to an expensive restaurant, and she keeps ordering...

Antwort:	on my mind	#232545
	von jon, 2007-06-02, 05:13 Spam? 71.162.150... I think "I was counting my money on my mind." is better than"in my head". No offense.

Antwort:	jon	#232560
	von jim (GB), 2007-06-02, 10:02 Spam? Hmmm. With regard to computation, "in my head" is the exact opposite of "on paper." With regard to cogitation, "on my mind" conveys a sense of involuntary preoccupation with a topic, which would certainly apply to our poor young man. However, your sentence sounds very wrong, because it confuses the transitive and the intransitive. It would have to be something like: "My shortage of funds was on my mind." To make this more active, "My shortage of funds was constantly on my mind." But it is still too weak for describing a pressing situation. My colloqial suggestion: "I couldn't stop myself secretly totting up my finances."

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