journalist's request

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Feb 21 08:35:33 UTC 2001


>>Q.  Are there more English words that connote love or hate? Ever any
>>meaningful tallies on this?  Do any other languages have a different
>>balance between the two emotional poles?
>
>I'm not able to answer the question. You'd have to mine thesauruses.
>
>I make the observation, however, that the psychologists tell us the opposite
>of 'love' is NOT 'hate', but rather 'fear'.
>
And others say it's 'indifference'.

larry



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