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Do you have any information on the learn/teach distinction you mention? I couldn't find anything by googling - although those are very common words. Those two w
by leoedin 4y ago
Do you have any information on the learn/teach distinction you mention? I couldn't find anything by googling - although those are very common words. Those two words seem very distinct in my mind, so it would be interesting to learn that it didn't used to be the case.
- k1t 4y agoSomeone just needs to learn you some better Google skills. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14778/is-learn-the-new-teach https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14778/is-learn-t... https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/teach-em-or-learn-em https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/teach-em-or-le...
- lioeters 4y agoIn some languages, "learn" and "teach" are the same word. For example in Czech, the former is in reflexive form, to "teach oneself". učit se (learn) and učit (teach) And in other languages, the meaning of "teach" can be expressed using the word for "learn", by adding the learner as indirect/transitive object: to learn someone how to play the piano But I don't know what the parent comment meant by this: > the learn/teach distinction was made up by grammarians That distinction exists in some languages, and not in others. Perhaps they mean that this difference didn't used to exist in English, but in later years grammarians popularized it..? Looking up the etymology of "learn", I found the answer. > Transitive use (He learned me (how) to read), now considered vulgar (except in reflexive expressions, I learn English), was acceptable from c. 1200 until early 19c.