"I hate you"

[koganbot]

"I hate you"

Person A says to Person B, "I hate you." Is it more likely that Person A is:

(1) expressing affection?

or

(2) expressing hostility?

Let's posit that A and B are each over twenty years old, and that they're speaking English. This is all we know. "More likely" means "probability of at least 50.1%."

Although "expressing a mixture of affection and hostility" is a reasonable third option, I'm not allowing it. Just pick (1) or (2).

See comments.

Comments

hate wiggle room

[lostcosmonaut.livejournal.com]

option 1. One of my ex-girlfriends used to say that to me all th time, pretty much every day, basically every time I said something funny in a teasing way or something politically incorrect

When people mean "I hate you" they generally go for something like "fuck you"

--mza.