Not necessarily. There should be a word to differentiate between the love you feel for your spouse, and the affection you have for your children (which bloody well better NOT be the same), a word for the way you “love” ice cream, etc. The Greek word Agape means the affection you have for close friends, and I know there’s one for the your siblings and another for your parents, but he mind’s gone blank.
Art Linkletter once asked a child if she had ever been in love. After a pause, the little girl replied, “No, but I’ve been in like.” We need a word for that, too.
There are a variety of definitions. Love as in love of a thing, such as I love my car, or I love rocky road ice cream. This differes from the love a parent has for their child, which is a sacrificial form. What David seems to be refering to is not love but lust, as in I say I love you, but what I mean is Iust after you and want to ave sex with you.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 10 years ago
Now that’s profound.
Dani Rice about 10 years ago
Not necessarily. There should be a word to differentiate between the love you feel for your spouse, and the affection you have for your children (which bloody well better NOT be the same), a word for the way you “love” ice cream, etc. The Greek word Agape means the affection you have for close friends, and I know there’s one for the your siblings and another for your parents, but he mind’s gone blank.
Art Linkletter once asked a child if she had ever been in love. After a pause, the little girl replied, “No, but I’ve been in like.” We need a word for that, too.
BillWa about 10 years ago
There are a variety of definitions. Love as in love of a thing, such as I love my car, or I love rocky road ice cream. This differes from the love a parent has for their child, which is a sacrificial form. What David seems to be refering to is not love but lust, as in I say I love you, but what I mean is Iust after you and want to ave sex with you.
Jim Kerner about 10 years ago
L-O-V-E was made for me and you! So sang the late great Nat “King” Cole.
hippogriff about 10 years ago
Dani Rice: You are looking for philos and eros. But aren’t we all?
lindz.coop Premium Member about 10 years ago
I think that’s only 20 words.
22Wu33/es Premium Member about 10 years ago
the plural for Inuit is Inuit.