Clare Hoard: Very likely that it is a territorial change of meaning rather than a national change. (As in, the people you are around are using these phrases versus everyone adopting them like phrases "lol" and "lmao")
Enriqueta Steffen: If you mean that people are over-eating when their heart is breaking, yes, but it happened so gradually over time that it took someone pointing it out to really make me realize it.But "losing face"...no, I'm not aware of that becoming more literal, and I wonder what you mean.Anyway, it's a really interesting question....Show more
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