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I usually don't make classifications beyond, "a friend", "a dear friend", "an old friend", "a friend of the family". If it is someone that I work with or am in school with, it can be "my friend and colleague".
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What Tante said. I don't tend to preface the introduction of friends like that. (If it was a deeper question than that, then I'm afraid I didn't quite understand it.)
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Maybe I can go the the Canadian site...Sid says the security is much more lax there, and I could infiltrate the US site without a login from there.
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I do classify friends, but I rarely introduce them that way. I rarely find myself in the situation of introducing friends to each other, in fact.
I suppose my classifications are different from yours, too. Tough to explain.
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I once introduced a young male friend I'd met at a writing class (but kept in touch with online) to my in-laws as 'my friend______'.
It sounded incredibly awkward. O_O
"A friend of mine from writing class, who was in town without family on family on Thanksgiving so I invited him here" would have been worse, though.
Some people hear 'friend' and automatically think 'um, *friend*' when the friends are of the opposite sex. "Acquaintance" seems cold. I don't know what the best solution would be.
I don't feel that awkwardness when the friend is a femme, though.
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My friends want the classification. They say I have too many and they like some reference to who other people I'm talking about are.
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Yea it helps to know how they know the other person, instead of asking oh how do you know each other, the information is provided.
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