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Originally Posted by Catlady
Philistine that I am, I thought I could listen to Tchaikovsky without understanding one damn thing about music. I've been playing Swan Lake and stupidly thinking I was getting great enjoyment from it, but no, because of my appalling lack of musical knowledge, I was getting nothing. Oh well.
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Of course you can enjoy something without understanding it. You can, for example, listen to this rather beautiful reading of Homer's "Odyssey", in ancient Greek, and get enjoyment from the sound and rhythm of the poetry, even if you don't understand a word of it:
But I, who do understand ancient Greek, will probably get more from it, because I do understand what the words mean. I'm sure you'd agree that you can comprehend more about something you understand than something that you don't understand?
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It seems to take considerable verbal gymnastics to deny that listening to an audiobook is equivalent to reading.
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Not at all. It simply depends how you define the words. I don't personally choose to regard the act of listening to be reading, whereas you do. We're both equally entitled to our opinions on the matter. I suspect that neither of us is going to persuade the other to change their mind about it!