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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Do you put on a movie or do you turn on a movie?
  

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I watch a movie. We seldom mention the action of starting the movie in the CD player. We just say, "Let's watch a movie".

  • I watch a movie.
  • We seldom mention the action of starting the movie in the CD player.
  • We just say, "Let's watch a movie".
  • Even if someone were in the act of putting the CD in the player and we said, "What are you doing", the answer would be, "We're going to watch a movie".
  • CJ
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I watch a movie.

We seldom mention the action of starting the movie in the CD player. We just say, "Let's watch a movie".

Even if someone were in the act of putting the CD in the player and we said, "What are you doing", the answer would be, "We're going to watch a movie".

CJ
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I haven't watched TV for years, but when I did, the act of selecting a movie, as opposed to watching something else, could be called either one. (I didn't have cable until the mid-70's!)
Let's turn on the news. Let's turn on a movie. (Even when a sit-com was already playing.)
Let's put on a movie.
I suppose these days, "Let's put on a movie" means "Let's put one i

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