Hi all,
This is amusing – and challenging! Given that in Finnish language the verb
‘valvoa’ has two parallel meanings, to be awake/stay up and to
oversee/supervise, a guard who’s having a nap is a contradiction in terms.
Which of course doesn’t mean that we have no ‘sleeper-peepers’ here...
Maybe we should call them ‘stay ups’ to emphasise the sexist motives which
are included in the business anyway ;-)
Sorry! Seems it’s not my most serious day today. What about ‘onlooker’?
Someone who watches and sees but simultaneously is somehow aside. Some
Foucauldian neologisms could also be developed. Wannabe discipliner?
- hille
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