Timeline for Is it correct to say "I can not watch TV because you are in my sight"?
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| May 17 at 13:04 | vote | accept | Tom | ||
| Dec 10, 2021 at 22:14 | comment | added | Josh Part | @KateBunting in "mexican" spanish we would say "donkey's skin isn't transparent!" | |
| Dec 10, 2021 at 7:19 | answer | added | ernstkl | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 9, 2021 at 15:26 | comment | added | Barmar | @EspeciallyLime To be fair to the OP, I think a large number of native English speakers don't know the difference between "can not" and "cannot". | |
| Dec 9, 2021 at 9:14 | comment | added | Sampisa | In Italy we say something like "Hei, you're not a son of a glazier!" just because... only the glassmakers' sons are transparent ;) | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 21:19 | comment | added | Davislor | I might say, “I can’t see the TV because you’re in the way.” | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 20:25 | answer | added | computercarguy | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 9:15 | comment | added | Especially Lime | Not really relevant to your main question, but it should be "I cannot" (it is not possible to) rather than "I can not" (it is possible not to). | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 8:13 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @KateBunting "You may be a pain, but you are not a window!" ;-) | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 3:51 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Tom: If your dictionary says they're synonyms, then it is sadly incomplete. Both words have multiple meanings, only some of which overlap. For instance "I lost my sight (because of an injury to my eyes)" is not at all the same as "I lost my view (because my neighbor built a McMansion)". | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1468415247421743106 | ||
| Dec 8, 2021 at 2:19 | comment | added | Fivesideddice | This is a great question and needs more upvotes. I don’t get why good questions on ELL get so few upvotes. | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 1:59 | comment | added | Hearth | Note that the specific phrase "get out of my sight" is a moderately rude way of telling someone to go away. Probably not the impression you want to give. | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 0:47 | answer | added | Davislor | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 0:38 | answer | added | DotCounter | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 23:34 | answer | added | Matt Timmermans | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 22:32 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 7, 2021 at 21:56 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | I would point out the difference between watching and seeing. I cannot watch a TV show if I cannot see the TV screen. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 16:29 | comment | added | Katy | If something is blocking my sight, I can't see at all. If something is blocking my view, I can't see something specific. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 16:19 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | @randomhead has answered your question very well. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:58 | comment | added | randomhead | @Kate, my mother would say (sardonically but not sarcastically) that I made a better door than a window! | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:46 | answer | added | randomhead | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:42 | comment | added | Lambie | "Get out of my sight. I told you to go do your homework!" "Dad, can you please move? I can't see through the telescope. You're blocking my sight." | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:16 | comment | added | Tom | @KateBunting, in the dictionary, "sight" and "view" are synonyms. Can I say "you're blocking my sight" equivalently? | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 14:39 | comment | added | stangdon | "You're in my sight" means "I can see you." | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 14:37 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | My father used to say sarcastically "You make a good window!" (That is, 'I can't see through you'). You could say "Hey, you're blocking my view (of the TV)!" | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 14:32 | answer | added | EllieK | timeline score: 40 | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 14:24 | history | asked | Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |