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The wonderful Glass Octopus. Living at depths of around 3000 ft and only being about a foot long, these strange little creatures are rarely seen by scientists.

@spanish speakers te amo feels weird to say??????

TE AMO! IS TOO! INTIMATE!! maybe if you say it quickly and in a jokey way its ok but in a serious talk??? it feels too much!!!!!!!

“i love you” is NOTHING compared to te amo. i love you feels like a kiss on the check and te amo feels like fucking marriage. 

#I have like a whole thing on saying te amo to anyone

YEA. i had a relationship with someone and she dropped the “te amo” super quicky and i was like…………”thats ok, thank you, but im gonna be honest w you….i’m not saying te amo until i really feel it” thats how serious it is. 

te amo IS very serious, very deep, very intimate. when you want to tell someone that you love them without it being massive, the term you want is te quiero

cant believe no one had contributed this

Same for German imho?!??? Ich liebe dich is THE confession. You don’t drop it in a joking way.

It might just be me, but I wouldn’t randomly pepper Я люблю тебя into conversation either. It feels… too much.

Maybe it is the English one that is weird

I tell my close friends “I love you” all the time. I think It’s different if I were to say “I’m in love with you”.

In these non-English languages, do parents not tell their children “I love you?” Or is it only romantic?

Oh, I’m monolingual but I know a bit about this one! :D

So, in a lot of languages, there are multiple verbs that mean, “to love,” which are each situational, while, in English, we derive the meaning through context

Like, “Te quiero,” refers to love for friends and family, aka platonic love, while , “Te amo,” or, “Ai shiteru,” in Japanese, is so achingly tender and romantic that you might as well write the other person a receipt for your heart, because it’s theirs now

At some point, English did have multiple verbs for, “to love,” but eventually English speakers decided, “to hell with it, I only want 1 broad term for these big mushy feelings,” because we hate having multiple words for things almost as much as we hate punctuation

TL;DR: cultures that are non-English speaking do tell their kids they love them, they just have multiple words that mean, “To love,” and English is the odd man out because it got tired of that and went

man, as an american, I will say “I love you” if you pick me up a snack when you pop down to the store

I’ve said I love you to coworkers before I’m pretty sure. Context and tone is everything. And the word “in.” “In love” means you’re making your 200k slow burn confession

Absolutely, in my experience context is absolutely everything, but even in a relationship saying “I love you” has never been casual… I’ve only had one very serious relationship (we’re still together now) but it was about 5/6 months before we both felt completely ready to say it to one another.

I have friends/colleagues who I’d tell I loved them for offering me a cookie, but I would never have said that to my boyfriend too early in case it was misread as moving too fast!

In a relationshippy context the phrase “I love you” kinda translates to “I am In love with you”, but you don’t have to say the longer version for the serious meaning/declaration to get across!

We’re only finding out recently that a lot of animals have colors and patterns that we cannot see because they’re outside of our visual range. It calls to attention how much of the world we can’t experience because our senses are limited. When we shine UV lights on them, they glow pink or blue, but these are the colors that we CAN see…. they could be a bunch of different colors, which we SEE as all pink. It’s also interesting to consider that most of these animals are not aware of having glowing patches on their bodies…. isn’t it also possible that we have skin or hair patterns that were not aware of? . . (There is actually some research out there to support the idea that our own skin fluoresces as well and that there are gender differences in the pattern and glow.) Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER