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Yikes!!® Forfend, indeed!
Well, duh!. They're opposite ends of the same pipeline. If you can't figure out which end of the pipe you're at without having different words for them no wonder you have problems with lie/lay, bring/take and fewer/less.
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Dear Faldage: forgive me if you have already covered this. On my walk this AM
it occuured to me that "look" and "smell" etc. can be used two ways.
"You just don't look right to me" etc. Is there a term for this?
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"look" and "smell" etc. can be used two ways.
Good one, Dr. Bill. Different ends of the same pipeline. No problem understanding which is meant. I like it.
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The old favourite:
"My dog has no nose."
"How does he smell?"
"Terrible!"
Boom, boom.
Note this doesn't work with eyes and look, though.
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"My dog has no nose."/"How does he smell?"/"Terrible!"
Note this doesn't work with eyes and look, though.
Ah, so we have just invoked a difference between "see" and "look" which doesn't have an equivalent in "smell." "Look" could do double duty this way, but that's not exactly the way we describe what the eyes do.
It's (look vs. see) not the difference between active and passive, or transitive and intransitive - does it have a name?
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