Re: how to say

[Chris Handley <CHandley@GANDALF.OTAGO.AC.NZ>]

Colin writes:

> The fact that you give the example of "looking through my files" disturbs
>me, because it suggests that you are thinking at the level of words. "Look
>through [files]" is an *utterly* different concept from "look through [a
>window or a telescope]" and is no way germane to the argument.
>
I think that what we are seeing here are deficiencies in English not in
Lojban. That fact that we are forced to (over)use the word "seeing" in a
variety of totally different senses shows that English lacks the fundamental
nuances that Lojban expresses easily (if you _see_ what I mean (%} ).


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