Comments on: I ‘heart’ – old fogey moment. http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/ The life and education of two growing beans - our 10th year of blogging Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 By: Tim http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4435 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:46:08 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4435 Father Jack is my role model.

]]> By: Nic http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4434 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:58:20 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4434 I adore heart :)

]]> By: Chris http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4433 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:31:33 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4433 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 :-)

]]> By: Alison http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4432 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:05:58 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4432 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

]]> By: Helen http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4431 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:12:24 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4431 you WHAT??

]]> By: Em http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4430 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:28:00 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4430 OMG /1|$0n is t3h 1337 R0XX0RZ!!11! Ch2|s U R soooo pwned!! W000t!!11

]]> By: Alison http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4429 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:09:18 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4429 Oh, I heart hearting, it’s teh roxor.

]]> By: Ali http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4428 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:19:13 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4428 Whenever I’ve read it I’ve assumed it meant something less than ‘love’ and was used to avoid cheapening that word.

]]> By: Tim http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4427 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:20:18 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4427 I think you are absolutely right on this, utterly stupid to use an abbreviation which is longer than the original.

I ♥ proper English. :-)

]]> By: Joanna http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4426 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:40:17 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/06/20/i-heart-old-fogey-moment/#comment-4426 You’re going to be such a grumpy old man, Chris!

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