Have you noticed that teens and early 20s use the construction "person I'm talking to" to mean "person I'm romantically engaged with"
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Sometimes they'll even say, "we're texting" -- and that's supposed to connote, "we are in an incipient, experimental romantic relationship."
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i used that phrase yesterday for the first time, and you literally described the exact situation im in to a T
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any interaction outside of hypersexualized sadomasochism is alien to the millennial. this is the legacy of atomized techno-urbanism
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@alicemazzy@mtracey I disagree re hypersexualized: suspect we are actually net *de*sexualized due to atomization - 2 more replies
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Not all that curious. It's simply a nuance overlooked by earlier generations. We don't just start dating, we become friends first.
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I'm talking to you right now ;)
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talking = dating before going steady aka making it official
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I guess its like a relationship negotiation
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