You Friend Says He Loves Spending Time with You, but You

You friend says he loves spending time with you, but you two may have quite different meanings for the word love. So when you tell him "I love you" and get only a sad smile in return, it's clear that __________ got in the way of effective meaning making.

A) semantic noise
B) biased listening
C) an error in connotative meaning
D) cultural error
E) outside distractions