| ▲ | munificent 2 hours ago | |
Interesting. This is indeed a funny gap in the language. "Show" work for any sort of visual thing you might want to present to someone. It's a bitransitive verb: it takes both a direct and indirect object in addition to the subject:
For an auditory thing, our common words seem to subdivide it based on the sound source: "tell" for presenting speech to someone, "play" for presenting something musical:
"Play" has grown to encompass recorded audio, so is probably the closest thing to an auditory equivalent to "show".There is also "audition" which can be used transitively, but I don't think it works bitransitively. You can say "I auditioned a bunch of saxophone recordings.", but you can't audition something to someone. | ||