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		nonrandomstring 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can we still recover the right to be left alone? In Britain young people say "Leave me in peace". Peace is the state of being left alone, not just an absence of violence. Only later, adults develop separate notion of "privacy", a diluted and weaker version of natural 'peace'?

jvidalv 12 months ago [–]

Same in Spanish or Catalan.

We say “dejame en paz”.

And is not a young thing, is how it is said around here.

em-bee 12 months ago | [–]

german too: lass mich in frieden

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