Danbooru

Tag Alias: tired -> sleepy

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I would argue there is a semantic difference between the two.

Tired means you need sleep whether you are inclined to or not (for example I can be tired but have insomnia)

Sleepy means you are inclined to sleep whether you need it or not (for example I am sleepy when I just get up in the morning)

However, I agree that the nuance is probably impossible to be shown in a post, so an alias probably isn't a bad idea. (Sort of like fear and scared from forum #16962)

Reading over this I don't think any changes need to be made.

Except maybe a mass edit of tired to exhausted. Or vice versa. I went with exhausted for now because it's a more obvious distinction from sleepy. Probably the only issue is that sounds a lot stronger than just tired.

In the end I went through tired and changed to sleepy or exhausted as appropriate.

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