Postby janKipo » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:27 pm
I'm pretty sure to lose this one, but I'm trying for some coherence. When 'pilin' means "think", what goes in the DO slot is what we think, so, when it means "feel", it ought to be what we feel. The trouble is that "what we feel" is ambiguous (as is "feel"), for what we feel may be a tactile object (the old fraternity, I Felta Thigh) or it may be a certain sensation, classified however we can. And these seem like very different sorts of things to us (as do, to lesser extent, feelings and thoughts). But I think we need to accept that tp sees them as the same (Lord, I would hate try to define this notion of pilin in a uniform and incisive fashion, without relying on the ambiguities of English!). English has an array of devices to make the distinctions in the parallel constructions: mass vs. count, adverb vs. adjective, subordinate clause vs. verbal noun, bur tp has only modifier vs. object. So I think we should make the most practical (and least confusing) use we can of them.
And this without considering the "about" issue.