Aubrey Carter
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Like I just need to sit here and soak in this joy or this beauty.
Because we'll often say that about like a view.
If you're at the top of a mountain, I just want to soak in this view.
Exactly.
So then I guess it's just context because, yeah, we do have this other meaning of that phrasal verb, to soak in a tub.
You're literally getting wet.
Or to soak a sponge in water, right?
But this is idiomatic meaning to absorb the meaningfulness, the impact of something.
Yes, right.
It took me a minute to absorb what they had said.
Yeah, exactly.
Anything you need to process.
Yes, right?
Gosh.
These are these other words when it's more about processing information.
We say we need to let it sink in.
We need to process it.
We need to absorb it.
Or for example, it's hard to absorb it at once when there's so much information in a lecture.
I'm sure we've all been there in school, in a classroom situation where there's so much information thrown at you and you're like, I feel like I'm missing a lot of this.