[Ads-l] "Don't hate. Appreciate!"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Jon, does the term "hater," as in "don't let the haters get you down," correspond to the meaning of the verb "hate" that you are describing here?

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: "Don't hate. Appreciate!"

Chris Cuomo, humorously, on CNN.

Before you start feeling good about Hitler and Stalin, understand that
"hate" means "be envious, critical, or resentful of another's success" in
young-folk lingo - as it has for a fair number of years (often construed
with "on").

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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