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[Tlhingan-hol] Looking and Seeing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Wilson)
Sat Apr 19 10:51:30 2014

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>>>

In English, we sometimes emphasize the perfective aspect of
perception with semantic games: "You're looking at it, but you don't see
it," or, "You saw it, but you didn't look at it."


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To my mind, "see" is viewing with comprehension, while "look" does not impl=
y any recognition (although it may be present).
As far as I know, we only have {legh} and perhaps {tu'} to work with ... {n=
ej} and {Sam} have different meanings entirely.

bIlegh 'ach bIyajchu'be'

gheyIl


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<div><tt>To my mind, "see" is viewing with comprehension, while "look" does=
 not imply any recognition (although it may be present).</tt></div>

<div><tt>As far as I know, we only have {legh} and perhaps {tu'}&nbsp;to wo=
rk with ... </tt><tt>{nej} and {Sam} have different meanings entirely.</tt>=
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<div><tt>bIlegh 'ach bIyajchu'be'</tt></div>

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<div><tt>gheyIl</tt></div>

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