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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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!
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You chose to ignore what I pointed out about your shifting definitions of "active" and "passive." I don't know why you seem to think imprecision is okey-dokey for those words, but are horrified by a definition of "reading" that encompasses audiobooks.