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MattG comments on One model of understanding independent differences in sensory perception - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: Elo 20 September 2015 09:32PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 September 2015 01:54:58AM *  0 points [-]

Can you give an example when "I hear you "as an idiom works but "I see what you're saying" doesn't?

Comment author: Romashka 23 September 2015 06:25:31AM 1 point [-]

Also, nobody says 'You hear,...' instead of 'You see,...'

Comment author: Romashka 22 September 2015 04:20:50AM 0 points [-]

(It might be a quirk of how I learned English.) For me, "I hear you" is an acknowledgement of listening, possibly negotiating, and "I see..." - of the other person already thinking they have heard all they need to, possibly a dismissal. Of course, intonation matters too, and maybe it so outweighs the actual words that the above doesn't matter, but I mostly intake English as written.