The sentiment was "Yay! You changed position from sitting to
crawling! Well done!", and I just got completely stuck; how do we
talk about the difference between a person sitting and a person
crawling? Or the difference between a convertible with the top up
or the top down? Or the options for a Transformer toy?
That is: changes in the position of the parts of an object that
change nothing intrinsic about it? I've run into this a bunch of
time when wanting to talk about them thrashing around and stuff, but
I've cheated and used sutff like "desk" and "dansu", but that's not
going to cut the mustard here.
Help?
-Robin