A friend of mine for whom English is a second language told me that I am the only person he knows who uses the word "dislike", and asked me what the difference was from saying that I "don't like" something. I answered that they were the same, but that "dislike" might be more formal Is there a difference between "I dislike that" and "I don't like that" besides the former being more formal?
Saying that you dislike something means you have a distaste for or hostility towards it. When you don't like something, it means that you would prefer something else over it. You would want this to not happen. But saying that you 'dislike' means that you will be really unhappy if the thing that you disliked, happens. Update: Happen to find another similar question. Just as in logic, negation affects only the constituent it modifies, but in logic, negation can modify only sentences, whereas in English, it can modify other constituents as well.
A logician might prefer to call negation an "operator" rather than a "modifier". The constituent modified by negation is called its "scope". Syntacticians test for where the scope of negation is by constructing examples with polarity items, positive and negative see the Wikipedia article on polarity item.
As your intuitions probably suggest, in "dislike", negation modifies only the verb "like", but in "doesn't like Accordingly, positive polarity "somewhat" is permissible after "dislike" because it is not within the scope of negation,.
The definitive syntacticians' reference to negation and scope is Larry Horn's A natural history of negation. Dislike is stronger than don't like. Don't like is passive; it's an absence of liking. You could for instance be neutral or disinterested. Dislike is active. It means you expressly do not like it and are therefore by definition not neutral about it.
If you imagine a scale going from dislike at -1 to like at 1, "don't like" is in the middle at zero. Or at the very least it refers to the entire part of the scale between -1 and 0, inclusive. It depends on the context. They both mean I don't like any kind of ice cream. In other cases, the two can have very different meanings e. Well samantha, that's what we usually do in this forum. We go crazy over meanings. And the fact that, according to you, in Texas and in your travels people don't say they dislike something really doesn't change things much.
There may be things you are indifferent to,but you don't dislike them, you don't have a feeling of dislike towards them, you just don't care for them, you don't like them. Me caes bien I like you. El me cae gordo I don't like him. The verbal form of dislike is exactly the same as "don't like" in Spanish. Too close to call in English. Hate is a destructive emotion and could originate from sentiments like dislike, ignorance or jealousy.
Hate is an emotion that is the opposite of love. However, many people use the term hate casually in the day to day life. In addition, hate is an emotion that festers inside us for a long time. If we let go of our anger and revulsion, we can get rid of the hate. Dislike is an attitude or feeling of distaste or aversion.
You can dislike something about a friend, but when you hate someone, this person is your enemy and definitely not your friend. Feel free to just provide example sentences. Report copyright infringement. The owner of it will not be notified. Only the user who asked this question will see who disagreed with this answer. Featured answer. See a translation. Read more comments. Is saying the same but in a different way.
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