Do you mean that you say things like "What did you talk to him?" and "We said for hours"?
"Say" and "talk" generally take different kinds of arguments, and it's only in their both being speech acts that they're synonyms.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:10:37AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> The difference between saying and talking is that you say words
> and you talk about things. So all three, say, talk and express,
> are different. All three can be done with sign language or in
> writing, as far as I understand.
That's not how I use the words.
"say" and "talk" are pure synonyms, and mean spoken _expression_,
"express" is medium-agnostic.
Hence, since "cusku" has a "medium" place, it is "express" to me.
If cusku is "say" and tavla is "talk", for flashcard memorization
purposes, I'm going to confuse them a lot. I expect, but do not
know, that other native speakers would have the same problem.
For purposes other than flashcard memorization, it doesn't matter:
the place structure speaks (hah!) for itself.
-Robin
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