Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoI don’t think so, it’s not like you have a monopoly of 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”.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
yet you can have depression?
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
English being inconsistent, who would’ve thought.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
sucks that English became the international language, that language is painfully inconsistent.
although preferable to french