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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
So since you both seem to claiming a purely semantic reason for your views, I'm assuming you would both object (just as strenuously) whenever someone used the phrase, "I read you loud and clear", right? Or do you just pick and choose when pure semantics should rule the day? Are you perfectly OK with the guy in the truck on the street remotely "reading" your meter with a radio device?
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The word "read" does indeed have many different usages. I wouldn't personally include the act of listening to someone else reading a book among those usages: I choose to call that activity "listening". That's just me; other people will of course regard the situation differently.