During a countdown, why do we usually take only ‘DAYS’ into consideration, never mentioning the ‘NIGHTS’??? :O
What i mean is,we are being such hypocrites here, especially , when we use the phrase ‘THROUGH THE LONG NIGHTS!’ to mean any lenghthy period of time !!!!!!!
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A day is typically considered a 24 hour period. If you look at a calender, it has days, not days and nights. Night is more specific to the time of day.
I am only familiar with the phrase “through the long nights” to literally mean long nights – particularly used by someone that might work overnight, or is up all night for some other reason.
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Frankly most of the common and useful count downs are for seconds.
I consider it foolish to wish my life away by counting down days to a special event. If you wish to count the mornings, noons, afternoons, evenings and nights be my guest. I prefer to live each day to the fullest.
All time is short!
Literally daylight and darkness are the same length twice a year. It is not hypocritical to be less than literal.
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In a day, we have 24 hours.
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countdown days are days and nights together
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a day is a period of 24hours duh. thats y we dont take night into consideration as night is just apart of a days 24hour time period.
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they’re just expressions…that’s all
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