[konoko]

[prescription-cactus]

good morning God has let me live another day and I’m about to make it everybody’s problem

[githvyrik]

people who hate chatty cats are the worst like. your small friend is singing a song just for you! they have things to say! listen to them

[soontobedeactivated12345]

would you invite them to your island?

[thesassyducks]

“Baby duck reunited with siblings”

(Source)

[illustraice]

[shegs]

[clown-dick-deactivated20131227]

for someone who pretends to have no emotions whatsoever im really sensitive

[mangafascination]

[gringoslur]

@spanish speakers te amo feels weird to say??????

[gringoslur]

TE AMO! IS TOO! INTIMATE!! maybe if you say it quickly and in a jokey way its ok but in a serious talk??? it feels too much!!!!!!!

[gringoslur]

“i love you” is NOTHING compared to te amo. i love you feels like a kiss on the check and te amo feels like fucking marriage. 

[gringoslur]

#I have like a whole thing on saying te amo to anyone

YEA. i had a relationship with someone and she dropped the “te amo” super quicky and i was like…………”thats ok, thank you, but im gonna be honest w you….i’m not saying te amo until i really feel it” thats how serious it is. 

[morsking]

[tindez]

te amo IS very serious, very deep, very intimate. when you want to tell someone that you love them without it being massive, the term you want is te quiero

[vatupassi-deactivated20221120]

cant believe no one had contributed this

[two-nipples-maybe-more]

[mutantenfisch]

Same for German imho?!??? Ich liebe dich is THE confession. You don’t drop it in a joking way.

[livia-arida-deactivated20201018]

It might just be me, but I wouldn’t randomly pepper Я люблю тебя into conversation either. It feels… too much.

[itsensakaljastaja]

Maybe it is the English one that is weird

[shylockgnomes]

[jay-kwellyn]

I tell my close friends “I love you” all the time. I think It’s different if I were to say “I’m in love with you”.

[elfwreck]

In these non-English languages, do parents not tell their children “I love you?” Or is it only romantic?

[ebonyheartnet]

Oh, I’m monolingual but I know a bit about this one! :D

So, in a lot of languages, there are multiple verbs that mean, “to love,” which are each situational, while, in English, we derive the meaning through context

Like, “Te quiero,” refers to love for friends and family, aka platonic love, while , “Te amo,” or, “Ai shiteru,” in Japanese, is so achingly tender and romantic that you might as well write the other person a receipt for your heart, because it’s theirs now

At some point, English did have multiple verbs for, “to love,” but eventually English speakers decided, “to hell with it, I only want 1 broad term for these big mushy feelings,” because we hate having multiple words for things almost as much as we hate punctuation

TL;DR: cultures that are non-English speaking do tell their kids they love them, they just have multiple words that mean, “To love,” and English is the odd man out because it got tired of that and went

[fluffygif]

Ducklings bathe in jasmine water.

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[shegs]

[mangoeman]

ocarina of time has a special place in my heart

[whatt-to-do]

you ever open a message and think ‘what the fuck am I supposed to say to this’

[sydsir]

raymond vs cucumber

[y-ureii]

[mulp--plum]

[joerose8]

What is this emotion

[clarkendarken]

Lust

[ihatemynose]

wish i could take my brain out and blow on it like a nintendo ds game card