YOU SAID:
my mom said I was dead to her ear
INTO JAPANESE
私の母は、私の耳には死んでいると言った
BACK INTO ENGLISH
my mother said dead to my ears
INTO JAPANESE
母は私の耳に死んだと言った
BACK INTO ENGLISH
my mother told me dead
INTO JAPANESE
母は私に死んだと言った
BACK INTO ENGLISH
mother told me dead
INTO JAPANESE
母は私に死んだと言った
BACK INTO ENGLISH
mother told me dead
That didn't even make that much sense in English.