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Scott,
If you google it, you'll get millions of hits. The acronym ISYP is
also common I'm told in text messaging.
We have a long tradition of expressing understanding as sight."I see"
means "I understand." "I see what you are saying." "I see what you are
up to.">
I'm squarely in the northeast, but it seems very common to me.
Craig
A recent book review on Linguist List gave examples of idioms from the
> British corpus:
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> 'take the plunge', 'see a point' and 'write a letter'.
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> I gave no problems with the 1st and 3rd in my American English; however, I
> do not recall ever
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> encountering the 2nd idiom: "see my/your/his/her/their point." I see no
> point; I do not see any point;
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> I don't see the point. Is there a point to this .? The idiom "see a
> point"
> is not in my American
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> English corpus of usage-nor do I recall reading it.
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> N. Scott Catledge
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