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> Perhaps the Japanese got this completely right. You can't just say that and then not elaborate :) Edit: Oops, didn't read the article.
by ReverseCold 8y ago
> Perhaps the Japanese got this completely right.
You can't just say that and then not elaborate :)
Edit: Oops, didn't read the article.
- c22 8y agoGp was probably assuming an audience who had read the article. From the article: In Japanese, the phrase “I love you” exists linguistically, but does not exist culturally. Linguistically, it is best translated as 愛してる or Aishiteru. Unlike English, it does not contain the “I” and “you” involved in “I love you”; instead, the “I” is implicit, belonging to the speaker only in assumption, as is the “you.” The phrase most directly means “(I) am loving (you),” as if to convey that love is an active labor, not just an amorphous feeling tossed between two parties.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoIn English, we have a lot of confusion because the word love is both a very and a noun. The verb describes acting in a deeply caring fashion. The noun describe a feeling. This is why we can have song lines like "Are you going to stay with the one who loves you? Or are you going back to the one you love?" Very often, when someone says "I love you" they mean "I have strong feelings because you are good to me." They don't necessarily mean "So I intend to be good to you." It's often a pretty parasitic pronouncement. /cynic