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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread modern courtship... #212803 10/11/2013 5:17 AM Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2 Seattle mandysw stranger mandysw stranger Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2 Seattle I have recently started internet dating, and it is very different from conventional courtship. There's low risk/investment in communication, and it is advantageous to communicate with as many as possible... so I need a term for such casual suitors (aspirants? optimists?), or perhaps a collective noun for an inbox full of them. I'm not afraid of neologisms (Shakespeare could do it... though I confess I haven't found a suitable option yet), but wonder if there are any existing words that might serve. It is also worth noting that the online dynamics of the genders are *very* different as well, so any terms should be gender-specific. (It rather annoyed me that, last time I investigated, there were several collective nouns for groups of women--coven, harem, galaxy--but the only one I found for men was "band"... which really isn't very evocative or specific at all.) Weird phenomena need some weird words to describe them! Any and all suggestions on the topic are welcome! Copy Link to Clipboard Re: modern courtship... mandysw #212826 10/14/2013 3:53 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont stable? and welcome! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Re: modern courtship... mandysw #212828 10/14/2013 5:02 AM Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2 Seattle mandysw stranger mandysw stranger Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2 Seattle Thanks! I do find it a rather odd situation, and conversationally awkward! It's just so dull to say "I got another message from a new guy today", or "I need to answer all the messages in my ____.com inbox" when the nature of these things is... so distinct and specific (yet hardly unique to me). I *have* taken to referring to the blatantly unlikely applicants as "the improbables". ;-) I'm sure there are far more definitions-in-need-of-words in the world of online matchmaking... but the only topical compendium I can think of is urbandictionary (and I somehow doubt that has either the words or definitions I'm looking for...). Copy Link to Clipboard Re: modern courtship... mandysw #212832 10/14/2013 1:52 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont The Improbables or The Unlikelies... Potentials? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Re: modern courtship... Buffalo Shrdlu #212834 10/14/2013 2:13 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass potential is shading towards promising or likely.. how about implausible or inconceivable(!) coinage: wrop (within realm of possibility) Copy Link to Clipboard Re: modern courtship... mandysw #212842 10/14/2013 10:32 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Expendables? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Re: modern courtship... mandysw #212938 10/23/2013 2:56 AM Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 3 California, USA csperryess stranger csperryess stranger Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 3 California, USA A sports analogy might be applicable -- the boys in the batter's box? Copy Link to Clipboard Re: modern courtship... csperryess #212943 10/23/2013 11:16 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Originally Posted By: csperryess the boys in the batter's box? Or in the on-deck circle. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: modern courtship... mandysw #213173 11/11/2013 2:36 AM Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 1 Tokyo, Japan Bee Spelling stranger Bee Spelling stranger Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 1 Tokyo, Japan UnSUITORables Copy Link to Clipboard Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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