This is a great post by lashxevious, How not to Charm a girl in SL. Covering some obvious points like moving too fast, cheesy lame Casanovary, IM whoring, Muscley-Caveman-Fabio drool, and of course Desecrating Dante. I haven’t seen too many of the big ugly out of proportion guys. You know with the giant arms and shoulders and tiny little heads? ::sigh:: Maybe that should be a contest?

-Veyron

It’s interesting how American English and British English are different. As Churchill once said, "Two nations separated by a common language." Amanda used an interesting term on Pownce today, and I actually had to look it up… "On the pull". An interesting idiom. I found this pretty amusing site, the English-to-American Dictionary.

pull v. The art of distracting the opposite sex. Pulling is conceptually very similar to hooking up. To be on the pull is a less proactive version of sharking. Single males and females are almost all on the pull but will deny it fervently and pretend to be terribly surprised when eventually it pays off.

I wonder if they have a Second Life to First Life Dictionary anywhere…

-Veyron

I was talking with a fellow Second Life blogger, a famous photographer one from one of the low countries that didn’t want to be identified…. The discussion migrated to a topic we hardly ever talk about… Second Life Sex or SLex. She indicated that the problem was that English was not her native language but she knew more dirty words in English than any other language (funny how that is - I thought Russian was the top of that pyramid - or was that German?).

Anyway, is this a serious problem in Second Life? I mean, are we not getting enough SLex because language is holding us back? It also sounded like several of these low countries needed to form some new language committees. Perhaps they need a subcommittee on SLex talk. I know Tiessa did some reading on the subject to improve her already impressive skills.

Also, I’m curious to the multi-lingual who read here - confess, when you SLex, is it English or your native tongue?

Maybe this is a business opportunity, like the Xcite business - SLex talk. Learn to emote like a pro in 30 days? Orgasm in 5 different languages in a week?

-Veyron