journalist's request

Elizabeth ebrewst at LINFIELD.EDU
Wed Feb 21 23:19:29 UTC 2001


I heard it was not FEAR but INDIFFERENCE.
Liz

--On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 3:31 PM -0600 Mark Odegard <markodegard at HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>> 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'.
>
>
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