Hearts Up

Alas, the following icon -- which I have just discovered here --

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is not available in post titles.

Anyway, I found myself researching once onto autistic language. And no, nobody in my family so far is -- people are _nasty_ in reading 'unintended' double-entendres.

I was researching on some misuses of Grice in the 'language pathology' end of things.

And I found that 'hearts up' as per above, is a sign-language locution that people (who can't speak, apparently) can "say".

I argued that while words can be used ironically, it is very _DIFFICULT_ to use

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_ironically_ to mean, "I hate you, bastard"

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