FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agoIt's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a placemessage-squaremessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down118
arrow-up1169arrow-down1message-squareIt's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a placeFreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square77linkfedilink
minus-squareSneezycat@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoI don’t think so, it’s not like you can have a monopoly on hunger or sleepiness. “Tener/to have” doesn’t mean to own. In English you can say “I have feelings” but not “I have sadness”, because they don’t consider emotions to be “things”.
minus-squareSneezycat@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoEnglish being inconsistent, who would’ve thought.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agosucks that English became the international language, that language is painfully inconsistent. although preferable to french
I don’t think so, it’s not like you can have a monopoly on hunger or sleepiness. “Tener/to have” doesn’t mean to own.
In English you can say “I have feelings” but not “I have sadness”, because they don’t consider emotions to be “things”.
yet you can have depression?
English being inconsistent, who would’ve thought.
sucks that English became the international language, that language is painfully inconsistent.
although preferable to french