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19 October 2006

Eskimo's only have one word for Love. Philosophical ramblings. [More:] So I was wondering why a word like "Love" which has a multitude of meanings (I Love you as a friend, a parent, a sibling, a lover, a one night stand, a short lived infatuation, an admired colleague, a father figure, a great entertainer) has only the one word.

Love.

I was thinking that maybe to have more than one word for Love would actually cause more societal problems than it would fix. That is, we need to have the same word for ...

"I'm enamoured with you but don't know if I trust you enough to tell you my pin number."

or

"I trust you more than anything but the only thing I feel for you is camaraderie and trust. You are to me an extension of myself and sexually you do not excite me"

because all these different expressions of love need to be mistaken by those who "Love " us as ...

"My passion for you burns with the white hot heat of a million dying suns. I wish to procreate with you and in the meantime I will throw myself under any moving vehicle if it makes your life one iota less difficult"

So, because of the harm it would do to society if Love could be memetically quantified, there can be only one word for Love.

That's my theory anyways.
I love questions like this.

Seriously though, I'm sure Taz will be along any time now to point out that the Greeks have three words for it, just as the French and others have three words for "know". Of course, the Bible has a Hebrew expression for erotic love which in the King James translation gets rendered as "know". Which sort of completes the circle and makes me feel as though I'm not really rambling at all.
Love,
GeckoDundee
posted by GeckoDundee 19 October | 18:27
ARGGGHHHH!!!!!! || I really want to say something here

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