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Today's coffee culture has an incredibly sophisticated vocabulary. Do you want a cappuccino, an espresso, a skinny latte, or maybe an iced caramel macchiato?
The ancient Greeks were just as sophisticated in the way they talked about love, recognizing six different varieties. They would have been shocked by our crudeness in using a single word both to whisper "l love you" over a candlelit meal and to casually sign an email "lots of love."
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Eros, Philia, Ludus, Agape, Pragma, and Philautia. If everyone knew these words, and their meaning, we could avoid a lot of misunderstandings and butt hurts.
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01-04-2014, 07:40 AM
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