Clients and friends

[MsGuy]

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[jackcali]

Zipperzone, you're right that standard English is required in corporate America. When I was just starting out, I remember co-workers getting fired for sending outside the company letters or documents with one typographical or grammatical mistake. Now, I still won't hire or promote people unless they can write in the "Queen's English" without slang and sloppy grammar because I think it reflects badly on my company.

 

However, this is an internet forum about hiring guys or getting hired to get laid -- it doesn't really require that same level of care or erudition as letters from the Secretary of State. So, relax, Z, don't worry about grammar on this board. There's too much other interesting stuff to think about.

 

If you want to talk privately, though, I'd be interested in how you feel about starting sentences with "However" or other conjunctions, which some people find grammatically improper but which I find useful stylistically.

[AdamSmith]

I find it amusing the length some people will go to excuse poor grammar.

 

First, as jackcali observed, it had not occurred to many of us that posting in this escort forum calls for the same rules of decorum as applying for a job in corporate America.

 

Second, your ungrammatical construction above is striking. You must have done it to illustrate your point.

[jackcali]

Just to clarify, I will hire an escort without giving him a writing test. I must admit, though, that a well-written email exchange with the escort before our meeting does get my motor running.

[+ purplekow]

- but try and get hired in corporate America with that kind of usage on your resume and see how far past the front door you don't get.

 

 

You can see how far you get, but I do not believe you can see how far you don't get. Should it be that grammatically it is correct to use the phrasing "don't get" in this setting, it is definitely stylistically awkward. I believe that one will not get very far in corporate America, or in life, with an awkward style of communication.

[Epigonos]

A discussion about using the “Queens English” in the U.S. is NOT only silly it is absurd. Any British, subject of the Queen would collapse laughing at the very idea that Americans speak or write the “Queens English”. We haven’t spoken or written the “Queens English” since, at the latest, the middle of the 19th century. Let’s look at just three, of the many, different vocabulary usages:

British American

Bonnet Hood

Boot Trunk

Interval Intermission

Spelling can also be markedly different. An excellent example is labour vs. labor. Now as far as pronunciation is concerned I really don’t think it is necessary even to go there.

As another poster correctly pointed out this is a WEB SITE for a discussion of the hiring of escorts. Internet and email communication has developed an entire vocabulary and set of abbreviations of it own, ie. LOL, IMHO etc., etc. ad nauseam.

Frankly I find RianB sexy as hell and I am far more interested in playing with his body that critiquing his English grammar.

[KMEM]

To paraphrase Sir Winnie (I believe); poor grammar is something up with which I will not put.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[Guest flamengo]

I do not know why I waste my time. Mark Gordon - Why don't you READ the definition listed in your Urban dict.??? I'm sure that's your #1 dict.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=conversate

 

Thanks you duchess what-ever-you-call yourself. I accept your apology!!!

[jackcali]

Since I was the one who introduced the phrase "Queen's English" to this thread, I should tell you I meant it as a joke. As I recall, America had a little argument a couple of hundred years back about whether we were beholden to the King and his English. I thought, given the subject of this forum and the nature of its participants, the reference to Queen's English would be funnier than one to "grammatical American English." I apologize for not being more obvious with my humor.

 

And I did not critique RianB's grammar, but will say that playing with RianB's body would be more fun than defending his grammar, which is what I did.

[KMEM]

I got it. Do you speak ebonics? That could be very useful to say nothing of Spanish.

 

What is the point of any thing if it isn't fun?

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[RickyDC]

You guys are witty and hilarious! But this thread is now mostly about grammar and not the original topic.

 

If I remember, the original question posed to escorts, slightly rephrased:

 

When the business/professional arrangement has ended (neither money nor sex is involved - he is no longer seeing you as a client and you are no longer providing escort services) have you ever kept in touch with the former client and remained platonic friends?

 

Members of the grammar police need not answer.

[AdamSmith]

To paraphrase Sir Winnie (I believe); poor grammar is something up with which I will not put.

 

Minor point, admittedly off the main beam of this thread: Actually Sir Winston was making the opposite point. After a most proper lady criticized his use of the dangling participle (ooh! hot), he retorted, "Madam, that is the sort of thing up with which I will not put."

[Guest DuchessIvanaKizznhugg]

Back to the main road....

 

If I remember, the original question posed to escorts, slightly rephrased:

 

When the business/professional arrangement has ended (neither money nor sex is involved - he is no longer seeing you as a client and you are no longer providing escort services) have you ever kept in touch with the former client and remained platonic friends?

 

http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae139/DuchessIvanaKizznhugg/tw06-05.gif

 

:o

[KMEM]

Minor point, admittedly off the main beam of this thread: Actually Sir Winston was making the opposite point. After a most proper lady criticized his use of the dangling participle (ooh! hot), he retorted, "Madam, that is the sort of thing up with which I will not put."

 

I understand. That is why I said paraphrase. Perhaps I should have said similar point.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[+ purplekow]

Trying to right what once went wrong, I will take a quantum leap and address the original question. I have an ongoing cordial relationship with an escort I have not hired for more than 3 years. When he comes to NYC he will frequently do outcalls and stay at my home. I do have the occasional pleasure of seeing him walking around the house nude but we do not share carnal knowledge any longer. He does call now and again from his home just to check in with me. I enjoy his company. I can not honestly say we are friends, though we share details of our lives and some spare time together, we are more like very good acquaintances. It does take a lot for me to place someone in the friend category.

[Guest zipperzone]

Since I was the one who introduced the phrase "Queen's English" to this thread, I should tell you I meant it as a joke.

 

Not that it is important, but I believe I used the phrase "Queen's English" in my original post, before you did in reply to it - So There!

 

And I did not critique RianB's grammar, but will say that playing with RianB's body would be more fun than defending his grammar, which is what I did.

 

If you will read my post again you will see that I was not critiquing RianB's grammar - I was commenting on the lengths people will go to excuse poor grammar and the butchering of the English language. Although I guess I shouldn't be surprised as the so well educated American public twice voted for GWB whose English skills were above reproach. Right?

[Guest zipperzone]

A discussion about using the “Queens English” in the U.S. is NOT only silly it is absurd. Any British, subject of the Queen would collapse laughing at the very idea that Americans speak or write the “Queens English”. We haven’t spoken or written the “Queens English” since, at the latest, the middle of the 19th century. Let’s look at just three, of the many, different vocabulary usages:

British American

Bonnet Hood

Boot Trunk

Interval Intermission

Spelling can also be markedly different. An excellent example is labour vs. labor. Now as far as pronunciation is concerned I really don’t think it is necessary even to go there.

As another poster correctly pointed out this is a WEB SITE for a discussion of the hiring of escorts. Internet and email communication has developed an entire vocabulary and set of abbreviations of it own, ie. LOL, IMHO etc., etc. ad nauseam.

Frankly I find RianB sexy as hell and I am far more interested in playing with his body that critiquing his English grammar.

 

You just don't get it, do you? Probably never will either. However I wish you all the best in enjoying "playing with his body" and conversating with him while doing so.

[jackcali]

Apologies, zipperzone. You are right, you did first use Queen's English. I guess I repeated it meaning it as a joke. And I did not think that you were criticizing RianB for "conversate". My post was a response to Epigonos.

[Mark Gordon]

Move on

 

Wow, some people really will not take the hint when the OP asks them to drop it & return to the topic of the thread.

[jackcali]

Sadly, no, KMEM. To my great regret, I don't speak Ebonics or Spanish or any language other than American English, which I speak with a strong New York accent. Perhaps I will change that as I get to retirement age, if I'm not too old a dog to learn new tricks.

 

Speaking of tricks . . . Oh, sorry, that's for another thread.

[+ purplekow]

Let us see, this entire thread, which was about friendship has devolved to this sad state. A poster comes on, calls a man illiterate for his use of one word and the mud slinging ensues. Meanwhile, that poster never bothers to return, rather he is likely lurking and laughing at the shambles he has made. We don't speak the Queen's English in America but we can certain speak the queen's English here on a blog about escorts and getting laid. Guys from NYC can speak Queens English if they so desire, even if they mislabel Ebonics as a language when it is certainly nothing more than a dialect. So back to the original posters question. (I hestitate to say OP's question lest I start another language usage war.) The answer for me and many others is: "Yes". Clients and escorts may certainly continue a platonic friendship after the fire has gone and the embers have cooled.

[Guest RianB]

First, as jackcali observed, it had not occurred to many of us that posting in this escort forum calls for the same rules of decorum as applying for a job in corporate America.

 

Whew! That was close...for a moment I thought I may have forgotten to take an entrance exam to post here

 

I do not know why I waste my time. Mark Gordon - Why don't you READ the definition listed in your Urban dict.??? I'm sure that's your #1 dict.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=conversate

 

Thanks you duchess what-ever-you-call yourself. I accept your apology!!!

 

My God ...several grammatical errors here! Unnecessary capitalizations, extra punctuations, abbreviations not needed. This is a disgrace to the English language

 

Spelling can also be markedly different. An excellent example is

Frankly I find RianB sexy as hell and I am far more interested in playing with his body that critiquing his English grammar.

 

does "mis-underestimated" count? I think its from living in Texas for a year. I went from one part of the south to another...Even my accent is warped LOL. The Northerners just make fun of me

 

When the business/professional arrangement has ended (neither money nor sex is involved - he is no longer seeing you as a client and you are no longer providing escort services) have you ever kept in touch with the former client and remained platonic friends?

 

Usually, no. There's all sorts of reasons to why. Then again, I havent been doing this that long. About a year and a half now. Finances, new romance, moved on to someone else is all a possibility.

 

From what I've experienced, they usually arent willing to be 'friends' if that happens. In addition, many of my clients are 2 (or even 3) decades older than I am. We're at different stages of our lives. Doesnt mean we have nothing in common though, but just the fact that it started off a certain way, can expect it to turn into more than that.

 

This forum is great though because, atleast I know if I meet a client from here I can still hear how they are doing rather than them disappearing into the crowd LOL.

 

P.S. my last word on grammar LOL...I dont like the word 'conversing'. Converse is a shoe! http://www.converse.com/ Conversat-ing or ion sounds better to me. Oh well LOL

[KMEM]

Let us see, this entire thread, which was about friendship has devolved to this sad state. A poster comes on, calls a man illiterate for his use of one word and the mud slinging ensues. Meanwhile, that poster never bothers to return, rather he is likely lurking and laughing at the shambles he has made. We don't speak the Queen's English in America but we can certain speak the queen's English here on a blog about escorts and getting laid. Guys from NYC can speak Queens English if they so desire, even if they mislabel Ebonics as a language when it is certainly nothing more than a dialect. So back to the original posters question. (I hestitate to say OP's question lest I start another language usage war.) The answer for me and many others is: "Yes". Clients and escorts may certainly continue a platonic friendship after the fire has gone and the embers have cooled.

 

Personally I find it very interesting when threads go off on a tangent. Having 45 posts that basically say over and over, OK, works for me, sounds right, etc. gets a little boring, doesn't it? Name calling and being school marmish usually doesn't fit in very well but some folks are perhaps a little too sensitive? I freely admit to jumping back and forth on and off topic, something that works for me in a physical encounter with an escort also.

 

Do I think escorts, former or active, and former clients can be friendly? Of course they can. However, there are no free relationships whether the payment is actual appreciation and caring or USD AND from both sides.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[Romann]

Why can't we be friends. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dYpnd_9TFs

[RickyDC]

Y Not

 

Thanks Romann - That youtube video has had me grinning for about half an hour now.

 

They say a picture is worth one thousand words (grammatical or not) -- so a video must be worth a million?