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Harlena McStarkney
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This is something that has always bothered me.

Did Deorge mean "Love You Too", like maybe he was absent-minded and confused "too" with "to", or did he put it that way by accident; maybe he was writing the title down and someone interrupted him, and he never got around to adding that last "o" there? Or, is there a whole word missing, like maybe he was going to title it "Love You To Death" and got interrupted and never wrote the last word, or what? Drives me NUTS!!


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April 24, 2004, 1:05am Report to Moderator
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Beyond offering expensive therapy for you I can only offer the following reasons. 

Love You To.

To what?  Whatever you want.  Open ended.

And George was famous for having a harder time with song titles than any other part of the  process.

Or, for Taxgirl, he'd 'love you to'.  I imagine she can fill in the blanks. 
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yes, that's true, I heard that George always had problems with naming the songs.



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I didn't know he had problems with grammar as well...


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I believe that if it was a John song no one would think twice, since he was well known for wordplay.  Obviously George too was playing around.  I wouldn't think for one minute he didn't do this on purpose (as opposed to making a grammar error).
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Quoted from harlenamcstarkney, posted April 24, 2004, 3:01am at here
I didn't know he had problems with grammar as well...



I know! You'd almost think he'd spent too much time in a german pub during his teen years. 


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Quoted from misterchaz, posted April 24, 2004, 3:05am at here
I believe that if it was a John song no one would think twice, since he was well known for wordplay.  Obviously George too was playing around.  I wouldn't think for one minute he didn't do this on purpose (as opposed to making a grammar error).


Good point there.  But it STILL bugs me.  I guess grammar stuff like that will always bug me lol.


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April 24, 2004, 3:24am Report to Moderator
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Maybe that was the point.  To make one of his songs stick out a little bit more, since he rarely got the attention.

Or maybe I am just waaaaay over-analyzing it! 
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Perhaps it wasn't an error, perhaps he meant "I'd LOVE YOU TO come with me too"! In any case, it should really have benn called "Love To You" because that's the closest line to the title in the song!

Before George came up with the title, this song was called "Granny Smith", after the apple!


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Quoted from The_End, posted April 25, 2004, 10:57pm at here
Perhaps it wasn't an error, perhaps he meant "I'd LOVE YOU TO come with me too"! In any case, it should really have benn called "Love To You" because that's the closest line to the title in the song!


I'm sure it wasn't an error but the question is a very interesting one.
Maybe, to follow The End's reasoning, he thought of calling it 'Make Love To You' which was too direct so he decided to garble it by rearanging some of the words.

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It was definitely on purpose.

It's a simple play on words.

No deep meanings here, move along.

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April 26, 2004, 8:11pm Report to Moderator
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Quoted from misterchaz, posted April 26, 2004, 3:36pm at here
It was definitely on purpose.

It's a simple play on words.

No deep meanings here, move along.



I won't ask you for the evidence that it was "definitely on purpose"!

But I would like to know what the "simple play on words" is. In an earlier post you said:
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Love You To.
To what?  Whatever you want.  Open ended.
but this is not a "play on words".

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Not biting. 

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LOL!

I suppose the play on words is how you read it and how it is heard if read aloud - it's two different meanings. By adding or subtracting a single letter, the sentence takes on a whole other connotation.

If you say it aloud, you automatically assume "love you too"
If read aloud it means "love you to" do something.

Whatever, it's just George not being able to think of a title again!


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It IS a play on words.  Or perhaps more correctly, a play WITH words.

My initial remark was just a glip off the top of the head answer, partly because I was a bit incredulous anyone was bothered by it.  I'm sure we all noticed it, but no one I know was ever bugged by it.  That's what makes our bright big world I guess.
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