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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:50 am Post subject: Re: Why I will probably never date another American |
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| twg wrote: |
Trying to provoke a reaction because you were bored. And now that you got that reaction, you're happily embroiled in a flame war.
Trolling. |
I'm not trying to "provoke" anything. I'm making a statement and seeing what other people think. That's called a discussion.
Actually, most of the posts I make on Dave's are because I have nothing better to do, and I would argue that's true for most people. If we had something better to do, we'd be doing it. And if you look at my threads, you don't see flamebaiting. |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| Pink Freud wrote: |
If you were bored, perhaps you could have killed time by properly proofreading your post. |
Why? Its a forum post, not a term paper.
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| The correct plural of "ignoramus" is "ignoramuses", because "ignoramus" is not a noun in Latin, but a verb. |
Yes, that's right, but I like ignorami. Its creative license. It makes me smile, and everyone understands. I also often use penii to refer to more than one penis as well.  See, I'm smiling already.
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"Open-minded" is an adjective, and so it requires a hyphen.
"Myself" is a reflexive pronoun. It should not be used as a substitute for the personal object pronoun "me".
In addition, although starting a sentence with the conjunction "and" is not a grammatical error, doing it twice in one *beep* paragraph is rather poor style. |
Ah, that's what copyeditors are for, dude. And I'm relatively lightly copyedited by the magazines I write for, I might add.
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A writer? Really?  |
Yep! And for MONEY. Like hundreds of dollars an hour, sometimes! Boggles the mind, doesn't it? |
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Pink Freud
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:32 am Post subject: |
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Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
It certainly appears to have boggled yours.  |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:31 am Post subject: Re: Why I will probably never date another American |
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| Rumple wrote: |
| Uh. no, professor, you INFERRED "too." I did not imply it. Infer and imply are a couple words you might want to bounce off dictionary.com. |
*beep* off you pompous *beep*.
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| And you inferred it incorrectly. |
Then maybe you should choose the tone of your words more carefully in the future. |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:05 am Post subject: Re: Why I will probably never date another American |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| Rumple wrote: |
| Uh. no, professor, you INFERRED "too." I did not imply it. Infer and imply are a couple words you might want to bounce off dictionary.com. |
*beep* off you pompous *beep*.
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| And you inferred it incorrectly. |
Then maybe you should choose the tone of your words more carefully in the future. |
You want me to change my writing because you made a mistake? lol
That also assumes that I CARE that you inferred it incorrectly. I'll choose the "tone" of my words as I have always chosen them and ignorami like you can continue to infer whatever you want. I'm not writing for you anyway, so it doesn't matter. |
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mikeyboy122
Joined: 28 Feb 2008
Location: namyang
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject: dating |
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| Have you tried guys? |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: Why I will probably never date another American |
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| Rumple wrote: |
| Dating outside my own culture has allowed me to cut through all the cultural *beep* |
It's an illusion. The women you date are asking a thousand questions themselves, you're just oblivious to the expectations of Asians on dates. You don't know how you are expected to act with them so you assume there are no expectations, that somehow she like you thinks it's intercultural hence wide open and pressureless. |
This is possible, but I know for me, its not that I'm oblivious, its that I recgnize that I can't know what they are thinking, so I just try to be me. And I think (hope) that they do the same. Because two people being real is the best possibility for a good outcome. |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Burndog wrote: |
| I think there has been a fair mix of responses. If the OP is NOT trolling, then my advice is to stop over analysing everything and just go with the flow a bit! I mean...sometimes a woman (America, Western, ANYONE) moves their hair because it's in the way....some things are not meant to be signals. Just breathe a little bit and stop thinking that it's all so f*cking epic! Sheesh! |
I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with friends that started with:
"So we've been out on [insert number of dates here], and she seems like she likes me, but I'm not sure..."
I don't have to worry about that anymore, and I like that.
I wouldn't say everyone who thinks that is overanalyzing. Its a common thought in American culture, IMO. |
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bovinerebel
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Rumple wrote:
I'm a writer, among other things, and this is part of what I do. And there have been benefits already. I get to see who the ignorami are, and who is more open minded. And I get to see who has a similar perspective to myself.
And mostly, I was bored.
If you were bored, perhaps you could have killed time by properly proofreading your post.
When you use a pronoun, the antecedent should be clear.
The correct plural of "ignoramus" is "ignoramuses", because "ignoramus" is not a noun in Latin, but a verb.
"Open-minded" is an adjective, and so it requires a hyphen.
"Myself" is a reflexive pronoun. It should not be used as a substitute for the personal object pronoun "me".
In addition, although starting a sentence with the conjunction "and" is not a grammatical error, doing it twice in one *beep* paragraph is rather poor style.
A writer? Really? |
Where's a "w@nk3r" icon when you need it ? Being a writer is about being creative and playful with language . I'm not saying he is a writer , or a good writer , but I think the anal attention to detail you have demonstrated is a criteria better suited to being an accountant . |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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Rumple wrote:
I'm a writer, among other things, and this is part of what I do. And there have been benefits already. I get to see who the ignorami are, and who is more open minded. And I get to see who has a similar perspective to myself.
And mostly, I was bored.
If you were bored, perhaps you could have killed time by properly proofreading your post.
When you use a pronoun, the antecedent should be clear.
The correct plural of "ignoramus" is "ignoramuses", because "ignoramus" is not a noun in Latin, but a verb.
"Open-minded" is an adjective, and so it requires a hyphen.
"Myself" is a reflexive pronoun. It should not be used as a substitute for the personal object pronoun "me".
In addition, although starting a sentence with the conjunction "and" is not a grammatical error, doing it twice in one *beep* paragraph is rather poor style.
A writer? Really? |
Where's a "w@nk3r" icon when you need it ? Being a writer is about being creative and playful with language . I'm not saying he is a writer , or a good writer , but I think the anal attention to detail you have demonstrated is a criteria better suited to being an accountant . |
Actually, my second publication was a journal article I wrote in grad school, and when we got back the revisions that the copyeditor made, they sounded a lot like YoungFRANK's critique, except without the accompanying attitude. I think he'd probably be an excellent copyeditor. |
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