FOLLOWED BY OUR DISCUSSION OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "LIKE ME" AND "LIKE ME LIKE ME": One of our female readers has a question that's half-language, half-another-word-starting-with-l-that-I-know-she's-not-up-to-yet:
Boy meets girl. Boy asks girl out. Boy and girl go on, say, 6 dates. Boy and girl have not discussed their relationship status. How should boy and girl refer to their status? Dating? Going out? Seeing each other?
Going on dates?
To me: I think if someone else asks, you're at least "seeing someone." It's "dating" if you've reached the point that your next public rendezvous isn't a question of mutual interest but of mutual availability. YMMV.
