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I've noticed the recent trend of the phrase "I slept in" meaning: I slept late.

I've always said and heard "He sleeps late on weekends". It seems the west coast started saying "He sleeps in on weekends" and now most younger people here say that now.

It makes no sense- "sleeping in". In what?
Is that opposed to sleeping out?
How does that phrase have anything to do with what time he awoke?
 
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RadishRose said:
I've noticed the recent trend of the phrase "I slept in" meaning: I slept late.

I've always said and heard "He sleeps late on weekends". It seems the west coast started saying "He sleeps in on weekends" and now most younger people here say that now.

It makes no sense- "sleeping in". In what?
Is that opposed to sleeping out?
How does that phrase have anything to do with what time he awoke?
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I think that may have come from us... ever since I've been able to talk, everyone here has always said ''sleeping in''..meaning they're sleeping past their normal waking up time, ie on a day off etc..

I've never even thought about it not having any real meaning, I'm so used to it.. so I've just looked it up...and whaddya know, I was right... 😄 It comes from us Scots....


Short answer: "sleep in", in the meaning of "sleep late(r than normal)", seems to have developed as an idiom within the past 100 years, apparently borrowed from Scots. It's common in English for verbs in combination with intransitive prepositions — sometimes called "phrasal verbs" — to develop idiosyncratic uses and meanings, related in some metaphorical or analogical way to the meanings of the verbs and prepositions involved, but not entirely predictable from them.


The Oxford English dictionary puts "sleep in" under sense 1.g. of sleep, with two rather different meanings:


With in: To sleep in the house, or on the premises, where one is employed (contrasted with 'to sleep out'); also Naut., to remain in one's berth all night; (orig. Sc.) to oversleep; also, to lie in (to lie in 4 at lie v.1 Phrasal verbs), to sleep late.


The entry for sleep in the Dictionary of the Scots Language has, among listed "Combs. and phrs.",


(7) to sleep in, to oversleep (Sc. 1881 A. Mackie Scotticisms 60). Gen.Sc.;


I suppose that the original idea of the "sleeping late" sense is that "in", meaning "in one's house" or "in one's bed", is opposed to "out", meaning "out in the world" or at least "out of bed". In addition to the OED's reference "to lie in", there's the verbal form "to stay in", and the noun "shut-in", with similar meanings of "in one's dwelling". The idea of being "in" rather than "out", associated with sleep, then takes on the extra connotation that one is staying "in" while sleeping during a period of time when one normally would be "out".


https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4373
 
hollydolly said:
In this country it's always been '' I couldn't care less''.. I remember from a young age watching American TV shows where they would say the opposite and be confused by it... !!:unsure:
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"I couldn't care less" makes sense to me because it is an example of implied speech. What is implied is "I couldn't care less than I do now".
 
Think about it.
If someone says "I could care less" it means they care a bit but could care less.
If someone says " I couldn't care less", it means they don't care at all.

But they both make sense in my opinion so it doesn't bother me. I get their point.

I notice where I live we say "Good for you", when someone tells you of something good happening to them.

Others say "Good on you".
JimW said:
Another grammar/spelling mistake that makes no sense is when people say or type "could of" or "should of" instead of "could've" or "should've"
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The contraction is for "have" not "of".

"I could have danced all night and still have time for more"
 
hollydolly said:
I realise not everyone can spell, I also realise that we all make mistakes, typing too fast etc....but I do get fed up with people who continually spell words wrongly, like Loose instead of Lose, or draws instead of Drawers, etc... just irritates me because it makes no sense of the sentence
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Uh....you mean like "Realize?" ;)
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hollydolly said:
I realise not everyone can spell, I also realise that we all make mistakes, typing too fast etc....but I do get fed up with people who continually spell words wrongly, like Loose instead of Lose, or draws instead of Drawers, etc... just irritates me because it makes no sense of the sentence
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do you think im a looser holly?
 
RadishRose said:
I typed loose here recently when I meant lose; and I know better! :rolleyes:
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It's easily done typing too fast..etc.. (I've done it myself)...my beef is when people continually do it, they obviously don't know the difference between the definitions and spellings of the word...

''Loose''..being one that people get wrong most often!!
 
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