I 'Heart' Something-or-other
grantus_max
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I 'Heart' Huckabees was on some channel or other other the last couple of days, which reminded me how I annoyed I was when people started referring to it as 'I Heart Huckabees' instead of 'I Love Huckabees'. Prior to that, the heart symbol on a slogan meant 'love' and that made perfect sense.
I know it's a f*****g heart, but it meant 'love'. Now every time someone refers to a slogan with a heart symbol in it, they say the word 'heart' instead of 'love' and it *really* pees me off :mad:.
Bloody Huckabees, bloody stupid people...
Grrrr...
I know it's a f*****g heart, but it meant 'love'. Now every time someone refers to a slogan with a heart symbol in it, they say the word 'heart' instead of 'love' and it *really* pees me off :mad:.
Bloody Huckabees, bloody stupid people...
Grrrr...
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Language is complex - emotions aren't. It's a fairly safe bet that using a heart instead of expressing yourself denotes one of the smaller likes - however we pronounce an icon, the meaning is much the same.
I'm sorry, but you've entirely missed what it was I was being annoyed at, trivial though it is.
Don't mind it
Sorry - my bad - carry on venting
What about Gareth Bale running up to a camera giving the heart symbol every time he scores?
You can come again
I think I'm more annoyed that after the film-makers decided to use that term for their film title, the great unwashed assumed that it meant every other occurrence of the heart slogan should be referred to as 'heart' instead of 'love' with no-one kicking up a fuss...
...except me on an obscure thread some time in the future
What about it? I find that saying the word 'heart' instead of 'love' is annoying. It's not a term used by a minority having to put up with ignorance or bigotry, so I think it's safe for me to be annoyed about it without my annoyance helping to bolster afore-mentioned ignorance or bigotry.
:cool:
Your bad what? manners, breath, back,etc?
Maybe you should start a thread about it... :cool:
Are you sure that it's the film that kick-started the whole I Heart.... revolution that gets on your tits? Is it not possible that the expression was already in common usage before the film was made and it was just reflecting that change, not creating it?
I can honestly say I'd never heard that before the film came out (which I've not seen by the way). It's probably the case that the film title reflects the way some people had been using the term before that - maybe in the States.
If that's the case, then I would class that with people saying 'should of' instead of 'should have' - a wrongism that seems to have taken hold for a lot of people.
'Should of' annoys me even more than 'I heart...'
It's true that language changes, but what often happens is that words lose their original, specific, meaning and become used instead existing, perfectly good, words.
'Gay' has been used for 'homosexual' for nearly 100 years now, though it also kept its original meaning until quite recently (see the lyrics of "No Milk Today").
A more recent example is 'bigot', which had a perfectly good meaning of someone who won't listen to other peoples' opinions. Then it gets misused by a respected public figure (in this case gordon brown) and it suddenly means "someone who disagrees with you".
Similarly 'discrimination', which simply means ' informed choice'. There was also "illegal discrimination", a subset. But now, seemingly, all discimination is illegal.
Perhaps the symbol