Is "love" the most overused word in our vocabulary? If we restricted it's use to the really important things,

Question

would it have more meaning?

Answer 1

Yes, It has been cheapened because of it's over use.

Another example that really gets my goat is the word "awesome".

Example; "Oh Madge...these cookies are awesome!"

No Madge. Although you probably do make a darn good cookie, I really doubt that your cookies qualify as "awesome",. Awesome should be reserved for things like the love of God, or the Grand Canyon, for instance....not Madge's crumbling cookies.

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There I go...off on another tangent again...sorry!

Answer 2

When I was in college, a bunch of us students went ice skating. One guy had never done it before, so naturally he was slipping all over the place at first. But after an hour he was able to move around fairly well. In an off moment he told me, "I thought I'd never get the hang of it, but then I figured it out: you gotta love your skates."

That's really a profound thing to say. This guy was not the sentimental, bleeding-heart type, so I knew he wasn't talking some cliche. And though I couldn't put my finger on why, I knew he'd said it exactly right. What does it mean to love your skates? I don't know, but it worked. If love holds valid there, why shouldn't we say so?

The fact that, after thousands of years, we *still* haven't tired of using the word "love" (in all its various forms) strongly indicates that there's something true to it, and that we haven't quite figured it out. Sure, we bandy it about. But I'd like to think this is because we're trying to come to terms with it. Love is extremely complex, the way velvet is complex; at a certain level it could be the simplest thing in the world.

And what limit is there to love, whatever it may be? There isn't any, as far as I can tell. You can love many people, and I don't see where the cutoff point really needs to be. For that reason, I think that legislating this part of the language would be disastrous. Restricting the use of the word "love" to "the things that really matter" would be the worst thing anybody could do. By preventing ourselves from identifying a key ingredient to good action, even in the most mundane affair, we'd erase the ability to practice identifying it at all. After a time we wouldn't even be able to see it in the really important things. Whatever they are.

Answer 3

I think the problem is that love has too much meaning, or maybe to many meanings. Ancient Greek language used four separate words for love, to describe different aspects of what we use the one word to mean. Nowadays, you could probably come up with a hundred completely different, but completely correct definitions of the word love. I do think it would mean more if was used less often, but how would you decide what is appropriate. Would you only be able to speak of romantic love; "I love my wife." What about parental love; "I love my children." And what of the most common biblical meaning of love, as in "Love your neighbor as yourself." All are completely different, but completely valid uses. I guess I don't see how to restrict its use. Maybe its use will change as the language evolves.

Answer 4

No, well I don't think so anyway. I mean I don't ever say I love you to anyone unless its a rare moment and I think it will mean something to them. If I tell my family/friends I love them they are really taken aback(they know I love them) because I feel people do say it too much!

Its not love if you have to say it ALL the time is it! People should know they are loved- on the other hand there is that confirmation and its ALWAYS nice to be told your loved.

So, I'm just rambling here :P Basically I think it does have poignant meaning already :D and people shouldn't restrict what they want to say!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

All i can say is.....I would much rather hear 'LOVE" being tossed around than 'HATE"....even if it is a superficial degree of meaning...it's still more evolved than going around complaining endlessly about the negative stuff....

if the worst thing a person could do is more from 'hating this or that " to sort of focusing on liking things and seeing positive in things even casually...LOVE and more LOVE!!

if love is subbed in a sarcastic way instead of the word hate though.....id begin to tune out other people for a while...=)


love is the most complex symbol in existence.....what exactly is it again?

i liked this question....I think you are so thoughtful! I loved it (he he he)

Answer 7

It's not that the word is over used. It's just that the actions do not follow the words. I would believe a person who showed me love rather than said it.

Answer 8

..i kinda think "hate" is the most overused word. People use it to describe everything(even when they don't "hate" it, but rather dislike something, or didn't care for it. We should try and use "hate" for the things in life that deserve such a word.

Answer 9

Something well done is better than something well said (BJ). If we increase our use of other words to describe or convey our internal sensations connecting personal life to present experience, that is more comprehensive than a one word summation.

Answer 10

Probably, love is often considered as defying logic.
People find it convenient to state that they have love
for something for the sole purpose of excusing their logic.