Quote Originally Posted by Lise View Post
It seems that email has obviated the need to even use English, much less spell it correctly, or compose sentences with any grace. Here's a line from last night's exchange with an online maybe-date:

"Lise...the same. Thank you. I am very non eecky." (and it went on, a bit more coherently)

I wrote back, asking, "what does 'non-eecky' mean?"

He replied, "I guess I am trying to telll I reread your profile and we "may" match... "May"...

At that point, I gave up. I may, or may not ever know what "eecky", or, for that matter, "non eecky" might be. L.
I love it that this thread's not dead!

And now, I will reply by quoting MYSELF from 16 months ago.

The scenario: I was on match.com (btw, I am now happily off match.com and in love with a wonderful guy --not the one cited above-- so the system can work...), and emailing with the above cited guy. We did meet. I asked him what "non-eecky" meant. He said he was trying to reassure me that he was "not icky". Not a creep. Except. That he turned out to be a creep. We had a nice first date, made a date to see each other again, which he canceled by email at midnight the night before. Then, 3 months later, he sends an email begging my forgiveness, telling me he'd been in a horrible car crash, and was recovering...I had my doubts, but wrote him back. "When", I asked, "was this accident?" Two weeks ago. Oh, you mean 2.5 months after you blew me off? You Sir, are EECKY!