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<stephen@nomail.msu.edu> schreef in bericht
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> In alt.support.shyness Hans Kamp <hmkamp@home.nl> wrote:
> : One of them sat down and was blowing (not drugs, just literally blowing)
and
> : tsk-ing all the time. She looks at me several times. First I interpreted
it
> : as a signal as: I had to run very fast to catch this train, I am very
glad
> : that I can sit down and rest. Possibly she wants to make me react or
start a
> : conversation with her. I don't like to seduce women and I don't like to
be
> : seduced by them in trains. The other woman was also looking at me 3 or 4
> : times, and she looks satisfied when I look back.
>
> This is somewhat unrelated,
> I know this might all just be a translation problem,  but your use
> of the word "seduce" has always puzzled me.  You seem to use it
> to mean "flirt".  In American English "flirt" and "seduce" are
> very different words.  People flirt on trains.  Smiling, eye contact,
> talking, are all part of flirting.  Flirting is generally a very positive,
> carefree activity.  Seduction is something else altogether.  Seduction
> has connotations that imply that you are leading someone astray,
convincing
> them to do something they would not do in a normal frame of mind.
> When talking about men and women, seduction implies sex.
>
> I doubt that the women on the trains are really trying to seduce you.
> Flirt with you perhaps, but not seduce you.  Using the word "seduce"
> makes the women seem threatening, when in reality there are probably
> quite harmless.

That is true. Then it depends on my mood whether I want to have a
conversation with a woman.


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