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John Cowan wrote: Christian Thalmann wrote: >> Of course, if somewhere during the process the lady speaks: "Please > Mr. Thalmann, I am an innocent young thing, and I am definitely not > waiting to be abused by a male chauvinist pig like yourself! Behave, > you naughty boy!", you might as well offer her your bed right away > and take the couch for yourself. >Umm, I realize you're handicapped by doing this in an L2 (which is pretty amazing to begin with, IMHO), but *that* wording could only be a come-on, not a rejection, in this our English tongue. Now, now, now!! Sometimes "no" d�es mean "no", doncha know?