DonFerrari said:
JWeinCom said:
I don't know if English is not your first language or if you just don't understand the colloquial usage of the word look. "Looks" is frequently used as a shorthand for "Based on what I see, I anticipate it will be".
If I say "looks like rain" I am saying "based on what I can observe I think there will be rain". I am not saying that the sky literally looks like rain. If my waiter brings me a steak and I say "oh that looks delicious", I am almost certainly not saying that the steak literally looks delicious, since it is impossible for something to somehow visually be delicious (unless you have synesthesia or something). I almost certainly mean to say "based on what I can observe, I anticipate the steak will be delicious". If I see a trailer of a movie and I say "looks boring", I am almost certainly not saying that the visuals of the movie are boring. I am almost certainly saying "based on that trailer I anticipate the final product will be boring." And when someone says "looks god awful" they are almost certainly saying "based on what I can tell, I anticipate this game will suck ass."
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It is great to see someone who used to play the "english is not your first language" and similar dismissive talk to deny my points get the same threatment.
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Uhhhhh... not really sure if that was aimed at me or him. I sometimes ask that, because a lot of times English is not someone's first language, and if the issue seems to be one of comprehension, that's relevant. . In this case, command of the English language (how look is used figuratively vs literally) is the actual issue at hand. If it came off as dismissive, that wasn't my intention.
