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[Tlhingan-hol] Looking and Seeing

Brad Wilson ([email protected]) [KLI Member]



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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="padding-left: 3px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"><pre><tt>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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<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 work with ... </tt><tt>{nej} and {Sam} have different meanings entirely.</tt></div>

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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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