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Re:The language you speak changes your perception of time by stavros on Saturday March 16, 2024 @07:43PM (#39730460)
By the way, a Greek "full day" isn't the same as the English "long day". "Long day" implies tiredness, whereas "full day" doesn't have a positive or a negative connection. It's simply a day in which lots of things happened.
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Re:The language you speak changes your perception of time by samatman on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:43PM (#39731761)
We have an expression in English for a day in which lots of things happened as well! We call it a "full day".
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Re:The language you speak changes your perception of time by stavros on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:12AM (#39732786)
Yep, exactly, I don't know what the article is on about.
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Re:The language you speak changes your perception of time by arachnid92 on Sunday March 17, 2024 @12:37AM (#39731967)
It's the same in Spanish. As a native Spanish speaker (and a Swedish speaker too!), this really annoyed me about the first two paragraphs of the article. The authors clearly didn't speak the languages they were commenting on, as the expressions they compared are not analogous to each other!
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