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From: malik@helos.DEC (Karl Malik ZK01-1/F22 1-1440)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: SO et al
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 13:00:54 EST
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Subj; SO & other useless terminology


	'SO' is a useful term in conversations such as we have here
in net.singles. We are talking to people we don't know, and who don't
know us. Its use communicates a great deal and is quite simple.

	However, it and all of the other traditional 'hands-off!
She's mine!' labels are pretty archaic.

	Suggestion; Just call people by their names. "Hi, this is
Mary."

	Who asked you what your relationship was?  Why is that such 
an important thing to say?  Are you showing off?  Or suggesting that
they are somehow your personal property?

	And, conversely, what business is it of theirs anyway?

						- Karl

p.s., A possible response to parents' who keep asking "When are
you going to get married?" - "Exactly 3 years from the day you
stop asking."