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From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women
Subject: Re: the word "love" in English vs Hungarian
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 15:28:38 EST
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Summary: 

>	Some Hungarian friends of mine tell me that in the Hungarian language
>there are two words for "love": one for familial or platonic love, and one for
>sexual love
>	I think that this lack of distinction in English has probably screwed up
>more people that the he/she problem.

How about the French lang. where the same word means both 'to love' (in both
sense) and 'to like'.