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- From: jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb)
- Subject: Re: Attention Advice Givers (ie HELP)
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:38:09 GMT
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- >- Time out! Can you please explain this to me? How can a "date" not be a
- >"date"? In my book, when someone asks you out to the movies, and you go, it's
- >a "date". So how can you "turn it into a date"? How could it not be a "date"?
- >Then, you started "dating". Does this mean "we went to the movies a few more
- >times" or "we agreed not to see other people"? And are you "interested in
- >dating him" because "you love him" or because "he's a fun guy to be with"? Is
- >it just me or does the English language really suck when it comes to relation-
- >ships?
-
- I agree. Unfotunately the English language is the only thing we got. It would
- help howvere if people who say what REALLY happened inside of using phrases
- that different people read different ways. When you say "going out" that could
- mean anything from getting together witha grouip of friends. . .(of the same sex
- even (Homosexuals are free to flame me if they find this offensive (to them
- I say get a life and quit splitting hairs))). . . with a group of friends
- and going to the movies or shopping or the bars or whatever to haveing a
- love affair with someone and not being able to see other people. It would
- be better if people would quit saying :Oh yes, we're going out: and start
- saying "Oh yes, we are going to enjoy a movie together this Friday" or
- "oh yes, we are going on several romantic dats now, and we've agreed not
- to see other people so we can devote ourselves to each other for a while."
- English isn't the greatest (if there is a greatest), but people are the ones
- that make it really pathetic.
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