What's the difference among...

[guliver]

Hey guys,

When I'm talking about relationships

What's the difference among make out (with sb), hang out, seeing someone and hook up with sb?

 

[5jj]

Hey guys,

When I'm talking about relationships

What's the difference [STRIKE]among[/STRIKE] between make out (with sb), hang out, seeing someone and hook up with sb?

No so sure about make out, so I'll leave that to others.

hang out is spend a relaxed time.
see, apart from its transparent meaning in I'll see you this evening means have an ongoing relationship with, as in: I've been seeing Mary for six months now.Two people who are seeing each other are not living together.
hook up with is meet, get together with.

 

[guliver]

Thank fivejedjon for your help

But, why "between"? Is it impossible I use "among" in that sentence?

Between = in or into the space which separates two places, people or objects

Among = more than two places, people or objects

So, another question:

"Hook up with" would be a fleeting relationship, for example: One guy met one girl at a party, they spend time together, kissed each other and so on... after all.... they could not to keep in touch anymore, right?

 

[5jj]

But, why "between"? Is it impossible I use "among" in that sentence?

Between = in or into the space which separates two places, people or objects

Among = more than two places, people or objects

You are right in that it is normally between two things and among more than two; however, with 'difference' we always use between.

So, another question:

"Hook up with" would be a fleeting relationship, for example: One guy met one girl at a party, they spend time together, kissed each other and so on... after all.... they could not to keep in touch anymore, right?

No. My understanding (others may correct me) is that it's simply making the contact. Whether a lasting relationship develops or not is not part of the meaning of the expression.

 

[Barb_D]

My understanding of the current use is that a hook up is what we used to call a one-night stand. (That's a noun.)

They hooked up = they had sex without the intention of a long-term relationship.

Making out=mashing=snogging=kissing+maybe a bit more.

 

[guliver]

So,

what does "I do not hook up" mean in Kelly Clarkson's song?

Doesn't she have sex?

 

[Barb_D]

I don't know the song.

Maybe she did, but she thought it was a relationship, not a "hook up."

 

[crazYgeeK]

I wish we could append a text like "18+ only" to the end of the title of this thread.

 

[guliver]

hahahaha

This is the lyric:

KELLY CLARKSON - I DO NOT HOOK UP LYRICS

 

[Barb_D]

She wants a relationship that lasts, not a quick fling.

 

[guliver]

Barb_D,

First of all, thank you so much for all your help... and your patience too!

You're great!

Let me see if I got it:

If someone says to me "I do not hook up", as Kelly Clarkson or Katy Parry said, it means "I don't wanna be involved with casual relationship or make-out or fleeting relationship"....

not necessarily means "He/She doesn't have sex"

 

[Barb_D]

That is how I would understand it.

I have the first Katy Perry album, but not the second. Does she talk about hooking up in a song on the second one?

I think I have to go listen to Waking Up in Vegas now. I just love the energy in that song.

 

[guliver]

:-D

Yes, she does. I agree with you, Barb. I think Kate Perry is great and so funny!