Re[2]: [tied] offer-command-announce-awake-aware-inquire-learn-under

At 2:42:21 PM on Saturday, January 10, 2009, Andrew Jarrette
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>>> But I don't see how "command" = "make aware" or "be
>>> aware",

>> Of course it isn't 'equal'; it's merely a rather
>> unremarkable semantic shift (of 'make aware').

> Well, normally I would leave it at that because I know how
> you don't like to perpetuate threads in which you've
> stated your point, but to tell the truth I still don't
> understand how the meaning "make aware" becomes "command".

It's simply a narrowing of the sense: to command you to do
something, I must make you aware of my will.

Brian