I slept at. Origin of phrase ” I slept at”
I have recently heard a lot of people (most of whom have learned English as a second language) use the phrase “I slept at 9 o’clock” instead of “I went to bed at 9 o’clock” or “I fell asleep at 9”. What is the origin of this phrase?
If there’s a name but the character doesn’t sound odd to me then it shouldn’t matter.
At seven I ate dinner, and at nine I sleep.
Were laughably untrue, this is grammatically correct, and the sense is clear. If you look at a native language from the non-English speaker who says it this way you’ll probably find that the typical way of expressing the sense is I slept rather than I fell asleep or I went to bed, that’s all. I know this to be the case in English, for example.
