"Looking forward to Meating You"

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Registered: 05-06-2006
"Looking forward to Meating You"
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Mon, 02-12-2007 - 9:20am

I just got this in an e-mail.

We've mentioned the importance of spelling in profiles and OLD e-mail before. I must say that I don't know if "meating" is a spelling error or a Freudian slip. ;)

Elsa

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 02-12-2007 - 11:34am
You think it was a deliberate misspelling? or should I say Miss Spelling? Him being clever?
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Registered: 07-18-2006
Mon, 02-12-2007 - 12:20pm
If you two have already discussed spelling issues before, I would consider it deliberate
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Registered: 01-25-2007
Mon, 02-12-2007 - 1:29pm

ROTFL!

Um, next!

Moogie

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Registered: 09-27-2004
Mon, 02-12-2007 - 3:28pm
man, this is a pretty sad "slip". I would tell the guy if he's expecting some he's not getting some :-)
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Registered: 11-08-2003
Mon, 02-12-2007 - 6:50pm

I may be able to top that one. Here's one I got a day or two ago.

I am true and sincere and not sinicle in any way and wish to endevor into something meaningfull contact me if you wish

And now here is the first half of his profile.
I find that most women who are here on this site think that they are something truly special, yet you look at their profile and find that they are just as superficial as the ones you meet at the clubs. The guy that created this site was generous enough to make it easier for most to meet without hangups or baggage yet most of the women I have asked out treat it as though they do not have to respond if a person asks them out . I write this now as I am tired of the games that most women are now playing, and just blame it on the guys instead. Wake up ladies, you will be alone or depressed for a long time if you continue this route. I am sincerely ready to commit but not with someone who thinks that they can play with a mans emotions like most women on this site I have truly tried to meet.

He goes on to say that he is not bitter. Oh yeah. Not at all. If I don't reply, he'll think I'm one of those superficial and selfish women but if I reply and tell him I simply couldn't date someone that had more than two spelling errors in one sentence, that would be mean.

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Registered: 02-11-2007
Mon, 02-19-2007 - 4:25pm
this is HYSTERICAL...Man, I just registered with some site and I have this to look forward to? Well, at least I'll get some good stories/jokes out of it!
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Registered: 12-13-2003
Tue, 02-20-2007 - 8:39am

LOL Good one

a. careless/harmless spelling error
b. playful joke (perhaps you've joked about other things?)
c. blatant rudeness

I'd fire back with :

. . . I am so looking forward to "MEETING" you but for the record, you will not be "MEATING" me anytime too soon . . .

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Registered: 12-20-2006
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 8:23pm

Thank you for a serious giggle when I should in fact be working. Why? Because I can really identify with this.

Thing is I have mellowed with the whole "has to spell correctly" characteristic. After all, I type 75wpm and I tend to hit keys randomly and hope for the best. Sometimes it happens.

I think my worst though is the use of "you's" and "people's" - the hair at the back of my neck stands on end.

I would say give him the benefit of the doubt. I had a guy purposely mispell a word to make a joke (which I didn't get thinking he was just illiterate) and I pointed out the mistake and he explained why he had done it due to a previous conversation we had had. Made me feel like a right idiot! Still, we have our first date on Saturday night.

I guess now days I go with "reads a lot" as opposed to spelling. My sister was dyslexic as a child and was told by teachers she wouldn't make high school... and she is now a very successful property broker with an IQ of 146. So, it's not all it's cracked up to be. I would rather have a guy who has streets smarts than book smarts. Streets smarts - far more entertaining.

Unfortunately though, will still never get past the you's and the people's. A girl has to have her standards!

;)

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Registered: 12-13-2003
Thu, 02-22-2007 - 8:43pm

I found an educated handsome successful man online - we see each other now and then and I recall something about his original profile that I liked:

For those of you who are adventurous enough to use complicated words like "they're" "there" and "their", please use correctly. Last I checked, that was taught in grade 4

Loved that line