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Re: qechmey: Prism?

McArdle ([email protected])



--- [email protected] wrote:

> In a message dated 8/3/2007 2:33:18 PM Central
> Daylight Time, 
> [email protected] writes:
> 
> > (Yes, I know {buS} "concentrate on, focus on,
> think only about" is the 
> > wrong type of "focus", but I can't think of
> anything else this morning.)
> > 
> 
> It may not be the wrong type of focus/concentrate. 
> We don't know, right?
> 

But there are strong grounds for suspicion.  A prism
doesn't concentrate or focus *on* light (or on
anything else, for that matter).  The inclusion of the
preposition seems to restrict the word exclusively to
mental activity.

mI'qey


       
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