What Are You Thinking? Continued 14

What is the most powerful word in the English language?

I thought about that, and in context it is incredibly powerful. But we have used it in so many ways that we have watered it down and stretched it so far. I love a song. I love that mountain. I love the ocean. I love a person, and there are so many nuances to that. But I also love that show. I love lemon pie. I love piping hot, freshly cooked McDonald's Chicken McNuggets with an ice-cold coke, no ice -- but only very rarely. But I love them. I love that color on you. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. I love this, I love that.

So it is both incredibly powerful at one use, and so stretched to be almost meaningless in another.
 
I thought about that, and in context it is incredibly powerful. But we have used it in so many ways that we have watered it down and stretched it so far. I love a song. I love that mountain. I love the ocean. I love a person, and there are so many nuances to that. But I also love that show. I love lemon pie. I love piping hot, freshly cooked McDonald's Chicken McNuggets with an ice-cold coke, no ice -- but only very rarely. But I love them. I love that color on you. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. I love this, I love that.

So it is both incredibly powerful at one use, and so stretched to be almost meaningless in another.
I agree 100%
The context and the intent make all the difference.

This is also a great reminder that the English language truly doesn’t have enough words to describe feelings like this. I love Big Macs… very different than how I love my kids.
 
I agree 100%
The context and the intent make all the difference.

This is also a great reminder that the English language truly doesn’t have enough words to describe feelings like this. I love Big Macs… very different than how I love my kids.
I think this is why adjectives are important....

Also..... I almost disagree....

Because I love you both, but for different reasons.... Which are different reasons than I love doggos or chicken nuggets....

@UnquietDreams 😘🫂
 
I agree 100%
The context and the intent make all the difference.

This is also a great reminder that the English language truly doesn’t have enough words to describe feelings like this. I love Big Macs… very different than how I love my kids.
Other languages have multiple words for what we have one. Greek, for example, has at least eight. English absorbs words from every fucking language it contacts, but for something so powerful, so incredibly important, we just have the one.

Stupid English...
 
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