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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 12 days ago

It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place

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It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 12 days ago

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Huh that’s funny, “laying to rest” in English is an expression for burying someone after they have died
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  Yeah we also say “they are not yet under the world of the living” if someone is still asleep
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    That’s kinda hardcore!
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  We also call the event of publicly watching soccer matches etc. “public viewing” so…

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