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otherwise General Motors might have named their company General Engines and then where would we all be?
Watching the mother of all commercial litigation over the rights to the GE logo.
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Ah, yes, well--I'd rather not go there, thank you. What about house vs. home usages? I was trying to help a non-native-English speaker with these yesterday, and I know I didn't do a complete job. Do any of you-all say, for ex., "Let's go to my home"? In what circumstances do people use each of these words?
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Homes are a subset of houses. "It takes a heap of living to make a house a home".
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First of all, to me, a house is just a structure while a home has emotional connotations. These can be good or bad, since everyone had different home experiences.
I usually ask people to "Come over to my house" not "Come to my home". Or if I'm describing something about it, I use "My house is really small" not "My home is really small". But when I get in the door, I shout "I'm home!" because it's more than just "I am now in this building", I mean something more like "I am in this building and I can relax now and pet the cat and take my shoes off and have a snack...Come and hug me!" Similarly, "leaving the house" is just going out for errands or something, but "leaving home" is permanent, it implies that you're moving out on your own.
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Home to me is a personal space.. it is not always a tangible, but a house is a tangilbe object. I own a house. i have never felt at home in it. i have lived in it for 20+ years, and its not my home. (i am actually in the process of selling it!)
for some people, home is where i hang my had-- any temporary resting place. for some home invokes a sense of belonging and welcome, childhood innocence, a place where they will not only always take you in, but will welcome you.
home is where the heart is is as true a statement as was ever made. a hut, sans running water, heating, or electricity can be a fine home, and a mansion, sans love, might never be.
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home is where the heart is is as true a statement as was ever made. a hut, sans running water, heating, or electricity can be a fine home, and a mansion, sans love, might never be.
Getting off topic a bit here, but... Folksinger Richard Thompson has a wonderful song called "A Heart Needs a Home."
It was originally recorded with his then-wife Linda. He is now divorced. I saw him in concert a couple of years ago, and his grown son Teddy was in the back-up band. At one point in the show all the band left the stage except for Richard and Teddy Thompson, and they sang "A Heart Needs a Home" as a duet. It was one of the most beautiful musical moments I have ever experienced. Listening to them sing I completely forgot myself -- just marvelous.
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Well said, Helen. I hate real estate agents and other types who have been brainwashed by the real estate people who say to you, "You have a lovely home." Phooey. This is just occupational jargon. I may have a nice house, but no one but me and whoever else lives here knows what kind of home it is.
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I found the foregoing discussion rather idiosyncratic: in Switzerland, where more than half of the population happily live in rented accomodation, house is not really a synonym of home - not to mention the considerable number of human beings all over the world who live in tents.
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