![]() ![]() One study found that international students said “I love you” more frequently in English than they did in their native language, and another study found that “I love you” was expressed more often by American couples than German ones. Some say this cheapens, or devalues, the meaning of the word. That’s because “love” is a catch-all term we use to describe our feelings toward doughnuts and soulmates alike - as well as friends, family members, celebrity crushes, a GIF we saw on Twitter, and the fashion choices of someone we just shook hands with for the first time. ![]() If anything, from the perspective of other countries, the United States is neck-deep in an overflow of “love.” Whether English speakers are suffering from a poverty of the heart is largely a matter of who you ask. Of all the Western languages, English may be the most lacking when it comes to feeling.” An Eskimo probably would die of clumsiness if he had only one word for snow we are close to dying of loneliness because we have only one word for love. If we had a vocabulary of 30 words for love … we would immediately be richer and more intelligent in this human element so close to our heart. ![]() Eskimos have 30 words for snow, because it is a life-and-death matter to them to have exact information about the element they live with so intimately. This is indicative of the poverty of awareness or emphasis that we give to that tremendously important realm of feeling. “Sanskrit has 96 words for love ancient Persian has 80, Greek three, and English only one. ![]()
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