TobyBartels comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 08 February 2011 08:47:57PM 0 points [-]

English has some similar ones: ‘lay’ vs ‘lie’, ‘set’ vs ‘sit’. (Actually, these both derive from a standard construction in Germanic languages that we no longer use. There are equivalents in other Germanic languages.)