We “go” to lots of things that aren’t places. Im going to prove it with this sentence.
It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place
Submitted 20 hours ago by FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
In English, ‘go to’ can be used as the future subjunctive tense of the verb being conjugated.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Sounds fancy. I hope it’s not expensive to use.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Planning to go into detail, or was that it?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Different usage. You wouldn’t say “I’m going to prove.” or tell someone “Go to prove.” Are there any examples of “I’m going to [word].” or “Go to [word].” where the [word] is not a physical place?
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Yes. We regularly say “go to [verb]”.
Go to eat
Go to learn
Go to exerciseSaying “go to sleep” is exectly the same.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Not many… Heres what i came up with though: Go to great lengths
Go to an extreme
Go to bat for something
Go to town on something
Empricorn@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
Go to ass.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
if you insist ;-)
megane_kun@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I’ve got to go think about it for a second, and then I get to realize what it meant.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
I’m going to go to sleep.
Double going!
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Yeah I think it’s going to make me go insane
Schwim@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
“It’s time to achieve unconsciousness, kiddo.”
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The void calls ceaselessly, child.
moonburster@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
In Dutch “go” means to go do a thing as well and I use it English in a similar fashion. Never thought of it weird before
Nemoder@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
If you have trouble going to sleep then try falling asleep instead.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
you don’t go places when you sleep?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
As a stress sleepwalker, yes I do.
TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
I wish I did, I don’t dream so for me it’s pretty much just skipping anywhere from 6 to 10 hours and suddenly it’s the next morning.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I sure do. Just last night, I went to a store that was closed. The shopkeeper had hired a very tall and furry troll to guard the store at night. She said the shop is closed, and seemed a bit irritated. We shook hands for no apparent reasons, and then I went away. I sat into a car, we drove off, accidentally drove off road, plowed through the 1 m thick snow, fell off a cliff. We nearly crashed into a house, but somehow managed to land on a road right next to it.
That’s why you don’t try to do your shopping in the middle of the night.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 19 hours ago
In Spanish, they talk about hunger and thirst as if they are physical objects.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 18 hours ago
German too. Ich habe Hunger. Sie haben Durst.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You can have feelings too.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Sie haben Durst
Durst
Heh, Fred Thirst
teft@piefed.world 18 hours ago
I think that's more that tener doesn't always mean a physical thing.
As an example in spanish they use tener for age. As in "tengo 20 años" literally is "I have 20 years" but it means "I am 20"
Or ten cuidado means "take care" or "be careful". Both phrases use tener in a nonphysical sense in the same way as in english we use "to have". Like to have compassion or to have doubts.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
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”
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Feelings are things we have.
shalafi@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
J’ai froid.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Well then take a piss.
PineRune@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’d rather leave a piss.
spongebue@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Go poop.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 17 hours ago
That's what i say in the bathroom, like it's a team sport.
Goooo Poop!
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 20 hours ago
I wish it was. I wish it was…
roofuskit@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’m going to go, to my bed, to sleep.
neatchee@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’m 90% sure that it was originally in the form of “to go <there/place> and <verb>” and has just been shortened over time. A refined colloquialism, if you go for that sort of thing
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s a state.
davidgro@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The Dreaming
Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Tel’aran’rhiod
gilgameth@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Instructions unclear, summoned Cthulhu.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
In german we say either say “go” or “laying to sleep/rest”
9point6@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Huh that’s funny, “laying to rest” in English is an expression for burying someone after they have died
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Yeah we also say “they are not yet under the world of the living” if someone is still asleep
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 11 hours ago
We also call the event of publicly watching soccer matches etc. “public viewing” so…
GuyFawkes@midwest.social 16 hours ago
Naw, just a state of mind.
leadore@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The word “go” has lots of meanings besides physically moving to a place. It also means to change state (“the milk went bad”, “he’ll go crazy when he finds out”) and to indicate immediate future tense (“I’m going to read this book now”). Not to mention some other less relevant uses.