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kaylagrl

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Sooo I just signed in today to a chat message from a man I don't know who said "hello my love". I honestly don't know if he was talking to me or my dog in my picture. I hate to break it to him,but she's fixed. :( If he was talking to me,pretty sure my husband isn't going to be cool with it. Luckily I just found out how to be invisible. Seriously,whats wrong with some of these people!?
 
danja

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Yes i have also had men from africa talk to me on chat saying hi dear . :confused:
 
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There may be some cross cultural misunderstandings here..

I know in parts of Britain calling someone love is not seen as a romanitc advance but simply something men and woman call each other as just a friendly greeting..

And Hi dear could be the same thing in regards to some African communities when talking to any younger woman.. Again with no romantic intention intended..

But this is only a possibility i am putting out there for consideration..
 
tourist

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Adstar said:
There may be some cross cultural misunderstandings here..

I know in parts of Britain calling someone love is not seen as a romanitc advance but simply something men and woman call each other as just a friendly greeting..

And Hi dear could be the same thing in regards to some African communities when talking to any younger woman.. Again with no romantic intention intended..

But this is only a possibility i am putting out there for consideration..
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I lived in Maine for 8 years and calling everyone 'dear' is typical but holds no implications besides just being a greeting. After awhile I found myself saying this too. Your estimation is right on target.
 
danja

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tourist said:
I lived in Maine for 8 years and calling everyone 'dear' is typical but holds no implications besides just being a greeting. After awhile I found myself saying this too. Your estimation is right on target.
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Maybe you are right. It can be a missunderstanding because in my country we say dear only to very close people like family and close friends. That is why i feel uncomfortable when someone who i don’t know calls me dear
 
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tourist said:
I lived in Maine for 8 years and calling everyone 'dear' is typical but holds no implications besides just being a greeting. After awhile I found myself saying this too. Your estimation is right on target.
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Well when i was younger in Australia a lot of the older generation especially woman would sometimes call me Love.. Usually at stores when i was a young man in my late teens and early 20's.. It was dying out and today you rarely ever hear people saying it.. Australia was once a part of the British empire and we had a lot of English immigrants and so their customs kind of rubbed off on us for a while..
 
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danja said:
Maybe you are right. It can be a missunderstanding because in my country we say dear only to very close people like family and close friends. That is why i feel uncomfortable when someone who i don’t know calls me dear
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:) lucky i never called you dear then,, lol
 
melita916

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I have a coworker who calls everybody babe. She’s in her late 50s lol.
 
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kaylagrl

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Perhaps you all are right. I live in the south and they speak the same way. The thing is so far only men have tried to speak to me. I've gone ghost, lol. So it won't be a problem. I guess I should have talked further to see what he would say.
 
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Susanna

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East coast Texas everyone’s saying, not everyone of course, but some of the women are saying “sweetie”, “darling”, “honey” etc to people left and right. Doesn’t mean a thing.

“Love” makes me thinking of the UK, and older ladies in retail saying that to anyone younger than themselves, which is pretty most everyone haha.
 
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