I ‘heart’ - old fogey moment.

Wednesday, 20th June 2007 in Daft Stuff by Daddybean | 10 comments

Spotted in a comment on another blog earlier, but I notice it popping up here and there more often. What I mean of course is the:

I heart XXXX

kind of thing.

Now, using the heart symbol as shorthand to mean ‘love’, is fair enough. But then to write ‘heart’ instead of the symbol in it’s place, when you could just have written ‘love’.

Sorry, that’s plain silly.

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Thursday, 21st June 2007 at 6:40 am

Joanna

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You’re going to be such a grumpy old man, Chris!

Thursday, 21st June 2007 at 9:20 am

Tim

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I think you are absolutely right on this, utterly stupid to use an abbreviation which is longer than the original.

I ♥ proper English. :-)

Thursday, 21st June 2007 at 10:19 am

Ali

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Whenever I’ve read it I’ve assumed it meant something less than ‘love’ and was used to avoid cheapening that word.

Thursday, 21st June 2007 at 11:09 am

Alison

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Oh, I heart hearting, it’s teh roxor.

Thursday, 21st June 2007 at 3:28 pm

Em

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OMG /\1|$0n is t3h 1337 R0XX0RZ!!11! Ch2|s U R soooo pwned!! W000t!!11

Thursday, 21st June 2007 at 6:05 pm

Alison

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Of course, it may be as Ali says, an attempt to avoid diluting our beautiful language …. NOT!

i’m in UR LIBREEZ! RIPPING UP UR DIKSHUNAREEZ!!!!1!!!1!!ONE!!!1

Friday, 22nd June 2007 at 12:31 am

Chris

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Helen:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Is your friend here.

As for avoiding cheapening the word ‘love’ well seeing as it’s been used to refer to minor things for a long time, seems a bit late to worry about that now.

It’s obviously just done by young whippersnappers to annoy old fogeys like me :-)

Joanna, yup, I’m practicing hard :-)

Friday, 22nd June 2007 at 7:46 pm

Tim

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Father Jack is my role model.