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Luv or Love

  • 13-07-2009 9:23am
    #1
    LegacyUser
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    Hi Guys

    Does anyone think there is a difference between Luv or Love?? My girlfriend will only write Luv in a card or in a text never luv, I never thought anything about this as I thought in a text this is just the abbreviated version, however at the weekend we were all out and they were talking about somone having a new boyfriend and somebody asked are they in "LUV" in "Love".

    Is there a difference???


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  • #2
    Eve_Dublin
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    Can I ask you how old you are, OP? You sound young.

    I'm not "down" with the text lingo...I tend to spell out every word in my texts but I hear it's all the rage these days. Luv is just text speak for love, isn't it?

    However, now that I think about it, this was something I used in Valentine cards I sent to boys when I was at school. I'd write "Luv ...." because I didn't want the boy thinking I actually LOVED them for real (which, of course, I did or so I thought at the time...himself and about 20 others).

    I think English is evolving...I'm not an advocate for things moving towards "txt-spk" but I do believe the English language would be better if a lot of the vocabulary was spelt phonetically like most other languages so we're not wasting our time with stupid spelling tests and still making spelling mistakes well into our old-age but it looks like "txt spk"...invented by young people to communicate quicker and easier is...is becoming more main stream, particularly with people in their early twenties and teens.

    If you're questioning whether you're OH really loves you or not, then only she/he can answer that. Why don't you ask them? I wouldn't read too much into the spelling of the big "L" word though..not in this day and age.


  • #3
    prinz
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    Unregistered wrote: »
    My girlfriend will only write Luv in a card or in a text never luv

    Falling into your own trap.:D. Goes to show how easily it can be done. When I am using love I write love. The only time I have ever used 'Luv' is in the granny on Moore Street selling apples, 'three for a pound luv!' kind of way, more for accent purposes tbh, ( I am being honest there - not just typing tbh to appear honest for appearances sake iykwim ).


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    Permabear
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  • #5
    JamesAlex
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    Unregistered wrote: »
    Hi Guys

    Does anyone think there is a difference between Luv or Love?? My girlfriend will only write Luv in a card or in a text never luv, I never thought anything about this as I thought in a text this is just the abbreviated version, however at the weekend we were all out and they were talking about somone having a new boyfriend and somebody asked are they in "LUV" in "Love".

    Is there a difference???

    why do people find the need to abbreviate the word love? I think LUV is something you say at the start of a relationship so it doesn't seem weird that you are saying love bla bla bla


  • #6
    LegacyUser
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    I can't answer how your girlfriend means by it but I had a boyfriend who would only say he LUV 'd me as he wasn't sure of his feelings so Love was too strong a word to use and he was in his mid 20s..
    needless to say it didn't last but that's my take on it :)


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  • #7
    Novella
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    Hmm it's hard to say as everyone is probably gonna think something different about this bit I am one of those texters who spells words correctly so if I said "luv", I wouldn't actually mean I loved the person. Ask your gf, that is the only way you are gonna know for sure.


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