This guy has never met my friends

[pecunium]

Language, however, puts information first and manipulation second. Suppose I were to explain to you Einstein's theory of relativity, or Chomsky's theory of a biologically based language organ. My purposes in giving you the information might well be that of impressing you, or even ultimately mating with you (although anyone who could be induced to mate by such means would have to be pretty weird).

Adam's Tongue Derek Bickerton p. 48

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

You would be amazed... no, actually, I don't think you would... at the flirtations I've had that were almost completely in subtext while ostensibly discussing something entirely different. A guy who can't do at least a little of that sort of thing is BORING.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think I would. In person, or on the net.

:)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

One of the loveliest ones I ever had was discussing the Elizabethan use of second person singular vs. second person plural for degrees of formality and intimacy. And he was wearing a lace-trimmed shirt and a pale blue jerkin he'd made himself.

*sigh*