posted 3 days ago
I'll start. I think English is lacking an elegant way to say a day and a night or 24 hours. You just say "a day", and let people figure out from context whether you mean the whole 24, or the part of them when the sun's up, or 12 hours, or...
In Swedish, we have separate words for this. Dygn refers to a full 24 hours, while dag covers the rest of the meaning of English "day".