Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> writes: > >> in this sense, i don't think "indicate" and "identify" are >> completely interchangeable. in my mind, the word "identify" does >> nothing more than, you know, point at something and say, "that one, >> that's the one i'm talking about;" it goes no further than that. >> >> on the other hand, the word "indicate" (in my mind) implies that >> you're about to provide some *property* or *quality* of something, and >> you do exactly that in the earlier quote: > > I do not think the two words have different connotations, so we are > in agreement. You do not necessarily need a property in mind when
Eek. I do do think the two words are not interchangeable. I should stop typing late at night.
