ChristianKl comments on The value of ambiguous speech - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 30 November 2015 08:56:32PM 1 point [-]

English does have words like crave, cherish, yearn and lust to specify certain subtypes of love. It's just that people don't like to use them and prefer to use a word that's more ambigious. I don't think it's a problem that English offers the ability to be ambigious in this instance.