<div id="attachment_12039" style="width: 510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12039" class="wp-image-12039 " src="https://www.oh-i-see.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/140478298sized.jpg" alt="Girl playing daisy love game that varies across different cultures" width="500" height="749" srcset="https://www.oh-i-see.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/140478298sized.jpg 560w, https://www.oh-i-see.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/140478298sized-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.oh-i-see.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/140478298sized-138x207.jpg 138w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-12039" class="wp-caption-text">Looking for answers in the daisy love game</p></div>
<h2>Daisy Love Game in Different Cultures</h2>
<p>In the USA, when wondering about the chance of love, people pull petals and alternate outcomes: He loves me. / He loves me not. It&#8217;s not that clear-cut in France, where the choices are recited like this:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Il m&#8217;aime un peu,               He loves me a little, </em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>beaucoup,                           a lot,</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>passionnément,                passionately,</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>à la folie,                           madly,</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>pas du tout!                      not at all!</em></p>
<p>Clearly, different cultures come at the language of love in different ways. Personally, I like the odds in France better&#8212;only 20% chance of no love at all!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-13164" src="https://www.oh-i-see.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Daisy.jpg" alt="Daisy" width="48" height="48" /></p>
<p><em>See how much French you may already know in this post on <a href="https://www.oh-i-see.com/blog/2012/09/24/bilingual-brainpower/">Bilingual Brain Power</a>. For free French language learning resources, visit <a href="http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Français Interactif</a> and <a href="http://www.bonjourdefrance.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bonjour de France</a>.</em></p>
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