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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Damn, forgot to answer the post.
Technically this is an argument about whether prototype semantics is valid in this case.
To sum up, we seem to have have the following positions :-
a) Prototype semantics says reading can be used for audiobooks even though it is a less accurate usage of the word.
b) Nope, wrong word, and get off my lawn.
c) I have been insulted, have at ye varlet
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Nice.
But I've always seen prototype semantics as the great peacemaker.
A: Listening is NOT reading.
B: Is!
A: Isn't!
B: Is!!!
Wise Linguist: B, can't you agree that listening to an audiobook is not exactly the prototype of reading?
B: Well, yeah, ok...
WL: And A, can't you agree that listening to an audiobook is much closer to reading than to, say, driving a monster truck?
A: Yeah, I guess so...
WL: So could you live with the idea that B's concept of reading is just a tiny bit wider than A's, so that B's does include listening to an audiobook while A's just doesn't?
All:
group hug