I got my first OKCupid flame!

[narnee]

I got a message today on OKCupid from a sunnyday06, also known as the unsurprisingly single Mr. Gary Voss, 38-year-old taxi company owner from East Lansing, Michigan. I do not know this man and he clearly does not know me.

Entitled 'Eliza Doolittle', it said:

Comments

[hieroglyphe]

*shakes head*

What a cock. I used to have so many arguments with Americans online who believed that I was Scottish because I typed 'arse' instead of 'ass'. They'd seen Trainspotting, so apparently only Scottish people use the word 'arse' in the UK.

And it's one of those things - you use words like 'flat' and 'pavement' because they are the words you now use in day to day parlance with us guys. They are now part of your idiolect. It also doesn't take that long for people to start using such words - my old friend Margo came from LA to study at UCL for a year, and within a few months she was what this dickwad would describe as Eliza Doolittle. Conversely, since my friend Neil moved to the US, he's now calling things apartments and bathrooms that I wouldn't ;-)

Bathrooms

[wendolen]

During my visit, I had to forcibly teach myself to use the word toilet, when asking waiters &c where the facilities were. It's jarring, because over here toilet refers quite strictly to the appliance itself, rather than the room it resides in.

Re: Bathrooms

[hieroglyphe]

For me, a bathroom is something with a bath in. Therefore I've got the opposite thing to you in finding it naming room-with-a-toilet odd, because in my head you're referring to an appliance that isn't there :-)

Re: Bathrooms

[wendolen]

TBH, I usually ask for a "restroom" when what I want is a toilet, but it irritates me to hear myself say that, because it sounds like I spend too much time in commercial establishments (which is true, sadly).

Re: Bathrooms

[hieroglyphe]

My brain would parse a restroom as being a place where you'd rest - like a lounge or something.

Then again, people always have a go at me for being too literal :-)