Sunday, 4 December 2011

Schlafzimmer

More views of - or after - Cambridge Film Festival 2011
(Click here to go directly to the Festival web-site)


4 November

The German word for bedroom doesn't focus on the bed, but on the sleeping.

With living-room, we do what Wohnzimmer does, and consider the act of living our waking life. Same with dining-room and Esszimmer.

So why this difference with sleeping-room? Likewise, if French qualifies its word 'chambre', it adds à coucher, 'for sleeping'?

Bed or sleep - I believe that Italian goes for the bed part...


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