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By para, you mean a complete day & night cycle? If so, we have something similar in French, with « jour » being a 24 hour span, whereas a « journée » only desi
by shakow 3y ago
By para, you mean a complete day & night cycle?
If so, we have something similar in French, with « jour » being a 24 hour span, whereas a « journée » only designating the daylight part of it.
- bmacho 3y agoin English there is 'day' and 'daytime'
- kseistrup 3y agoIn Danish we have ‘døgn’ and ‘dag’.
- croisillon 3y ago“I stayed one day at Disneyworld” doesn’t mean i stayed 24 hours there
- dahart 3y agoUsing the verb ‘stayed’ does tend to imply you slept there and were there ~24 hours. If you had ‘stayed two days’ or more, that really would imply N 24 hour cycles approximately, and at least N-1 cycles certainly; any other number besides 1 in your sentence would mess up your example. You already know the word “day” has multiple meanings, and in some contexts (such as time codes and dates and time measurements, using “day” always means 24 hours). An example using one of the meanings is irrelevant, it does not contradict the other meanings.
- bmacho 3y ago"I drunk a glass of water" doesn't mean that I filled a glass exactly full of water and I drunk all of it leaving no drops on the inside of the glass.
- croisillon 3y agoThat’s my point, “para” is a rare concept
- bmacho 3y agoI see now. So you are claiming that you use the night exclusive version of the word, when you talk about spending a day somewhere. (Bc the night exclusive and night inclusive days certainly exist in most every languages, even in English you can say that you spend the daytime at disneyworld, when the distinction matters.) That sounds rare indeed.
- croisillon 3y agoThat’s where different languages have different concepts which one may or may not find useful from the outside. In other languages it doesn’t really matter whether the person was night inclusive or night exclusive, in Lithuanian you have to pick one word or the other.
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- croisillon 3y agoIf someone tells you they are only staying one “jour” at a place you can’t infer it includes the night as well. With “para” it’s clear.
- shakow 3y agoDo you have an example in mind?
- croisillon 3y agoIt’s 3pm and you buy a “one day” metro ticket, will it still be valid at 4am? The nychthemeron concept makes it clear.
- shakow 3y agoNot really, because the nychthemeron does not carry the concept of an anchoring hour, only a consecutive 24h span.