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22 Nov 2005 Tue 01:38 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Doesnt Sevgi include sexuality then? |
Certainly no! As I said before, aşk is only a kind of sevgi. Sevgi is too wider than aşk. There are too many kinds of sevgi one of which is aşk. Of course, there are few kinds of aşk but those are now out of the subject. (For example, tanrı aşkı-love of God).
I know the word love gives two main translations to Turkish-aşk and sevgi. In this respect,
When you say: "I love nature", love here is in the sense of sevgi, because you cannot, for example, make love with nature.
When you say to your son/daughter: "I love you", the meaning is the same again as you cannot make love with your children.
But when you say to your lover: "I love you", love here is aşk, because you can do it with your lover.
Sevgi can include evertying that aşk has except for sexuality. Each time you can use sevgi instead of aşk unless you mention or imply anything stuck to sexuality such as jealousy. For this reason, sevgi is always pure, innocent, etc. while aşk can be for example destructive as you already know.
Here I don't mention the process of love as AlphaF did. I just wanted to show the difference between aşk and sevgi. And you can contunie to believe AlphaF as he can express his thoughts too much better than I can.
Quote: But for man-woman relationship (or man-man, woman-woman), sexuality is included in love and therefore is just IN the word love |
You can of course call such a relationship between man-man or woman-woman "love" (I wouldn't call these love, anyway!), nevertheless what I mentioned is valid for these relationships, too. So you are right.
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(sorry I couldn't resist putting a face there to annoy you!)