Since it was my post that started this, I have to wade into this one, I guess <vbg>.
Really, Marnie summed it up pretty well. I guess I just wanted to say that I, too, was told that "love" is reserved for humans, or at least for sentient beings. One concept of love that some subscribe to is that to love someone/something, that love must be capable of being returned.
It really is an abused and misused term; often, when one says "love", they really mean "like a lot". As I clearly did, when referring to my MX. So, quite incorrectly, imho, "love" has come to be used as a superlative of "like", when in fact the two terms are quite different in character.
It's quite possible to love someone without liking them. Someone may say that they love a parent, for instance, but for various reasons, they may not like them (you know, alcoholic, abusive parent, that sort of thing). So even though you don't like them, you care for them, you feel a bond because they brought you into the world, you wish them the best, you would feel loss if they died, etc.).
So, to sum up, when referring to my MX, I was using the term love in the colloquial sense, meaning "to like very much". Love is much more and different than any feeling I could have toward any camera (even my Leica, or now, my LX).
regards, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Let's talk MV for a bit... (off-topic question) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:52:58 EST
>Could someone please, off-list is necessary, explain me the fine difference between "like" and "love"? I can look up the dictionary, but I want to know the real life details. This is serious request.
>Thanks in advance.
>Boris.
Okay, I'll give it a shot.
BTW - I've been posting so many messages lately because I've been online a lot tracking stuff on ebay. Not just cameras.
Love is stronger than like. But basically the distinction is, with love you
can't logically explain why you like something so MUCH. You know your
attachment is sort of irrational or non-rational, because if someone were to pin you
down why you like something so MUCH, you could give a long list of reasons and
that STILL wouldn't explain it. And you know it. So the liking, the feeling of
fondness, the love, goes beyond logic.
With like, hey, you CAN create a list to say why you like something. No nonrational part involved. And/so, probably because of that, the feeling of fondness is less.
When it comes to camera equipment, maybe the camera feels good to you.
Something sort of intangible, that you know you can't really, really explain. Not if
you talked until you were blue in the face.
I haven't found a camera like that yet. But I suspect it's possible.
I certainly have found other things like that. (Speaking of inanimate
objects, or non-people objects -- I love some old classic TV shows and movies, etc.,
for instance.)
Does that help?
Marnie aka Doe When I was a child, my grandmother quite seriously told me
you can't love *something* (as in I love pizza), you can only love people. So
it also really does depend how you define love. But most people aren't that
strict about the word, and saying one loves something is pretty common parlance
(in this day and age -- sorry, long gone grandma).
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