FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoIt's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a placemessage-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1message-squareIt's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a placeFreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agobut it works because abstract concepts are things an individual can own. Like “Tengo quidado” is “i own the the abstract concept of care”. it could work in English, but it just sounds strange or poetic, like “i have hunger”
minus-squareSneezycat@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 months 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-up1·3 months agoEnglish being inconsistent, who would’ve thought.
but it works because abstract concepts are things an individual can own.
Like “Tengo quidado” is “i own the the abstract concept of care”.
it could work in English, but it just sounds strange or poetic, like “i have hunger”
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.