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Is it a word?

Driving home today, I saw a license plate with this message:Naturally, I read it as I LOVE JIM. So I started asking myself if the heart was a word. My AHD defines a word as:A sound or a combination of...

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Eliza: Good question. I suppose you could regard "C," "U," "R" as variant spellings of see, you, are (and thus words), but you'd have to judge each case on its own merits. There would have to be an...

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I'm afraid I take the rather Humpty-Dumptyish position that the meaning of a word like "word" is not set in stone, but rather is subject to definition.We can agree to consider the heart symbol in to...

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using the heart symbol as a stand-in for the word "love" is terminally cutesy.While I may agree with you on the terminal cutesiness of using the heart symbol as a stand-in for the word "love," its...

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After consideration, I'd agree with LH's position: the symbol is not a word because it is not a part of a linguistic system. It only has meaning in a particular instance and a particular context; the...

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From my point of view, pretty much the whole point of the discussion is to examine what are the essential characteristics of a word. What is "wordness", if you will.If some things are words and some...

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It is not a word -- unless you take it as an alternative way of writing the word "love" (and then the word is "love" -- with an alternative way to write it and not something else). It is also not...

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I suspect it's not a word, but rather a universally recognizable symbol.We all understand what means, yet it is not a word.When I describe myself in a sentence, "I" am surrounded by words, yet I'm...

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GPP:As much as I like hearts, I must concur that the very idea of replacing the word LOVE with a heart is terminally cutesy. Imagine if the heart was officially deemed a WORD. As such, it would be...

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I think there's no question that love is a word and there would be little argument that the letters L, O, V, and E, strung together are a representation of that word. Arguments that the [heart]...

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It is not a word; it is a picture. We attach a word to it to make sense of it, as we do many other symbols.

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"I think there's no question that love is a word and there would be little argument that the letters L, O, V, and E, strung together are a representation of that word. Arguments that the [heart]...

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The heart symbol functions as a word only because it appears in the context of a sentence which is composed of other words that we recognize objectively as words within a linguistic system. The heart...

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WHAT??? The string of letters is merely a representation of the word. We speak of that string of letters as the word simply because when we use that string of letters we mean the word itself. We're...

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If you must all know what I've edited- I responded to Faldage's post then realized he was responding to the post above mine. I think he was, anyway .....If he wasn't, he's dead meat ....

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But does the heart symbol operate within the system of English? The answer is no.Does it take the 's ending for the possesive? Does it take the verb endings when used a verb? It doesn not take the...

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The symbol of the heart is purely a symbol to which we subjectively ascribe meaning. I'm repeating myself - just in case someone else misunderstands me. It isn't a word. I haven't said it IS a word.

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Eliza, I think Dave was responding to Faldage.

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OK, so what does a girl have to do to get noticed round here?

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Oh... Hello, Eliza. I hadn't noticed you there. Been here long?

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