Do you think a game console is a toy?

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160rmf said:

-Ack!- said:

For example: you play games, but you don't play with games. Same way you don't play toys, you play with toys. Toys are tools to play with same way that tennis racket is a tool to play tennis.

Tl;dr - The point is that a toy is not the only definition of a tool of entertainment it is just one of many different tools that match with the English verb "to play (with)".

I play games with my console, i play games with my basketball, i play games with cardgames, i play games with toys

I play songs with instruments

I watch movies with dvds, blu rays.

I make calls with my phone

I drive my car

You can play games with your computer, smartphone even a piece of paper but these products are not designed to play games as their main function

I wish it was in Finnish because as I explained we have entirely different words for playing with toys and playing games. "Leikkiä" refers to toys, a game of tag etc. "Pelata" refers to video games, board games and sports, but I forgot to mention that we have a third verb "Soittaa" which refers to either playing an instrument or playing a song for example from Youtube.

 

Leikkiä = Toys, game of tag and hide & seek etc.

Pelata = Board games, Video games, and sports

Soittaa = Instruments and other devices that play music.

And yet you can't say that hide & seek is a toy. Same way you can "play with your food" / "Leikkiä ruuallasi." Yet your food doesn't transform into a toy, unless they made a new transformers line-up "Foodbots". ;P