Glowstick@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoIt's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take itmessage-squaremessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareIt's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take itGlowstick@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresubignition@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·24 days agoTake ~= have ~= do Take a break == have a break, but a break isn’t a tangible thing, so this is shorthand for “do the actions required to constitute a break”
minus-squarenull@lemmy.nullspace.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 days agoI don’t want to have a shit, either – I’m trying to get rid of the dang thing!
minus-squaresubignition@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 days agoThen this is one verb you should definitely not noun
Take ~= have ~= do
Take a break == have a break, but a break isn’t a tangible thing, so this is shorthand for “do the actions required to constitute a break”
I don’t want to have a shit, either – I’m trying to get rid of the dang thing!
Then this is one verb you should definitely not noun