sleep together/ with

[blacknomi]

Both meanings are similiar, referring to someone has sex with another person, especially someone you are not married to.

When I was a kid, my parents and I were under the same roof. I could remember that Mom, Dad and me share one bedroom. I have my own little bed. Does it make sense if I say to someone

"I used to sleep with mom and dad when I was young"

or

"My parents and me slept together when I was young."

Would it lead to any possible misunderstanding?

 

[izabela]

Hi,

Yes, you would be probably misunderstood if you said your sentences. It sounds as if you slept with them in the same bed, not necessarily having sex, though.

Here are some corrections of your sentences:

'....referring to someone having (not has) sex.....'

'I remember that my Mom, Dad, and I (not me) shared one bedroom.'

'I had my own little bed....or a crib perhaps? (a bed for babies).

'My parents and I (not me) slept together....'


Iza

Both meanings are similiar, referring to someone has sex with another person, especially someone you are not married to.

When I was a kid, my parents and I were under the same roof. I could remember that Mom, Dad and me share one bedroom. I have my own little bed. Does it make sense if I say to someone

"I used to sleep with mom and dad when I was young"

or

"My parents and me slept together when I was young."

Would it lead to any possible misunderstanding?

 

[blacknomi]

Hi, thank you very much for thoughful correction. :lol:

And as you said, it could probably lead to misunderstanding. I believe there must be a proper way to describe my examples. Of course I do not want to sleep with my parents. H-OOOOO-rrible. Could you offer some more help with this?

[Scenario]
Mom and Dad sleep in the same bed.
I sleep in my own bed. (Since I wasn't a baby, it couldn't be a crib or cradle, my bed was just smaller than the normal one.)
We sleep together in the same bedroom, but I don't have sex with Mom and Dad. :wink:

How can I use one sentence to combine the three ones?

 

[Susie Smith]

Hi, thank you very much for thoughful correction. :lol:

And as you said, it could probably lead to misunderstanding. I believe there must be a proper way to describe my examples. Of course I do not want to sleep with my parents. H-OOOOO-rrible. Could you offer some more help with this?

[Scenario]
Mom and Dad sleep in the same bed.
I sleep in my own bed. (Since I wasn't a baby, it couldn't be a crib or cradle, my bed was just smaller than the normal one.)
We sleep together in the same bedroom, but I don't have sex with Mom and Dad. :wink:

How can I use one sentence to combine the three ones?

Something like this: When I was young, I shared a bedroom with Mom and Dad, but I slept in my own bed.

If you say: "I used to sleep with my parents when I was young", I am going to think exactly that - that you slept with them.

My little granddaughter often sleeps with her parents and I am not at all shocked when they talk about it. If I were not a widow, she would have slept with me and her grandpa too. Probably most of us slept with our parents on more than one occasion. I know all my boys did. ( Little kids seem to think it beats their own beds! :lol: ) In this context it would take a pretty dirty mind to imagine any kind of incestuous relationship.
:wink:

 

[izabela]

Hi again,

Susie's sentence looks good to me, too.

Hi, thank you very much for thoughful correction. :lol:

And as you said, it could probably lead to misunderstanding. I believe there must be a proper way to describe my examples. Of course I do not want to sleep with my parents. H-OOOOO-rrible. Could you offer some more help with this?

[Scenario]
Mom and Dad sleep in the same bed.
I sleep in my own bed. (Since I wasn't a baby, it couldn't be a crib or cradle, my bed was just smaller than the normal one.)
We sleep together in the same bedroom, but I don't have sex with Mom and Dad. :wink:

How can I use one sentence to combine the three ones?

 

[MikeNewYork]

Both meanings are similiar, referring to someone has sex with another person, especially someone you are not married to.

When I was a kid, my parents and I were under the same roof. I could remember that Mom, Dad and me share one bedroom. I have my own little bed. Does it make sense if I say to someone

"I used to sleep with mom and dad when I was young"

or

"My parents and me slept together when I was young."

Would it lead to any possible misunderstanding?

With clues such as "parents" and "young", there should be no confusion. When confusion is possible, one can rephrase the sentence to "shared a bedroom with" or "slept in the same room as"or "shared the bed with" or "slept in the same bed with", as the case may be. Usually it is an imposition, so using "had to" will also clear up the possible sex problem.
:wink:

 

[blacknomi]

Susan, thanks for your vivid examples. (I was laughing out in the computer center and everyone gave me an unwelcome look. :lol: )

Mike, thanks as always. @->--

Iza, thank you very much indeed.


Your language is weeeeeird. Sleep itself is simply a resting state. When you add any preposition to it, it changes the whole meaning and makes it no longer a resting state in which the body is active and the mind is conscious. Now I know how slight influence the preposition is. :wink:

 

[RonBee]

Susan, thanks for your vivid examples. (I was laughing out in the computer center and everyone gave me an unwelcome look. :lol: )

Mike, thanks as always. @->--

Iza, thank you very much indeed.


Your language is weeeeeird. Sleep itself is simply a resting state. When you add any preposition to it, it changes the whole meaning and makes it no longer a resting state in which the body is active and the mind is conscious. Now I know how slight influence the preposition is. :wink:

I think you meant to say that you now know how big a difference a preposition can make. Am I wrong?

 

[blacknomi]

Ron, you are right.

:smilecol:

 

[blacknomi]

Susan, thanks for your vivid examples. (I was laughing out in the computer center and everyone gave me an unwelcome look. :lol: )

Mike, thanks as always. @->--

Iza, thank you very much indeed.


Your language is weeeeeird. Sleep itself is simply a resting state. When you add any preposition to it, it changes the whole meaning and makes it no longer a resting state in which the body is active and the mind is conscious. Now I know how slight influence the preposition is. :wink:

I think you meant to say that you now know how big a difference a preposition can make. Am I wrong?

May I ask a question here?
When you ask "Am I wrong?" Were you presupposing that you were right? If you ask "Am I right", you might not be sure of something, and need other's confirmation.

Am I right? :wink:

 

[Cooler]

May I ask a question here?
When you ask "Am I wrong?" Were you presupposing that you were right? If you ask "Am I right", you might not be sure of something, and need other's confirmation.

Am I right? :wink:

Admire you, blacknomi... for always asking such "good questions". :wink:

 

[blacknomi]

:lol:

 

[RonBee]

Susan, thanks for your vivid examples. (I was laughing out in the computer center and everyone gave me an unwelcome look. :lol: )

Mike, thanks as always. @->--

Iza, thank you very much indeed.


Your language is weeeeeird. Sleep itself is simply a resting state. When you add any preposition to it, it changes the whole meaning and makes it no longer a resting state in which the body is active and the mind is conscious. Now I know how slight influence the preposition is. :wink:

I think you meant to say that you now know how big a difference a preposition can make. Am I wrong?

May I ask a question here?
When you ask "Am I wrong?" Were you presupposing that you were right? If you ask "Am I right", you might not be sure of something, and need other's confirmation.

Am I right? :wink:

Yes, I am pretty much assuming that I am right, but I am being polite about it.

Yes, you are right.

:wink:

 

[MikeNewYork]

Susan, thanks for your vivid examples. (I was laughing out in the computer center and everyone gave me an unwelcome look. :lol: )

Mike, thanks as always. @->--

Iza, thank you very much indeed.


Your language is weeeeeird. Sleep itself is simply a resting state. When you add any preposition to it, it changes the whole meaning and makes it no longer a resting state in which the body is active and the mind is conscious. Now I know how slight influence the preposition is. :wink:

Thanks for the flower and thanks to Susan for the chuckle.

Our manipulation of "sleep" has to do with politeness and euphemism. It is often softer to say "sleep with" than "have sex with" or "perform intercourse ". :wink:

 

[Tdol]

'Perform intercourse'??? Not in BE- we use 'have'. ;-)

 

[shane]

'Perform intercourse'??? Not in BE- we use 'have'. ;-)

Maybe they do it on stage over there.

 

[Tdol]

Maybe we don't need to rehearse. ;-)

 

[Francois]

We certainly don't need a dress rehearsal

FRC

 

[blacknomi]

We say

"The joyfulness the fish has in water" as euphemism.

It is a very nice idiom in Chinese literature.

 

[Francois]

The fish I had when I was a child didn't seem that euphoric in his fishbowl. I suppose it was a pokerfaced breed ;-)

FRC