What on earth is a personal ad?
" A new command i give you: Love one another. As i have loved you, so you must love one another." John 13:34.
Looking at the newspaper section on personal advertisements is certainly not what the bible means by loving. Probably you could say the main difference is the selfless versus selfish attitude syndrome. Here is one i happened to notice, (cos it was in bigger font than the rest -- wonder how much extra she paid) as i was lining my dining table with newspaper.
LADY 40 yrs no kids, Chinese & slim. I'm looking for someone special & I'm ready to give that special man my genuine love, care & appreciation. I'm pretty, intelligent & have everything a man is looking for! I wish to MEET A REAL GENUINE MAN (all bold is her emphasis), who i can trust & love. I'd like to be cherished, understood & adored. I love children. I'm looking for a TRUE CARING MAN 50-65, without bad habits, single NO COMMITMENTS, serious intentions, educated, GENEROUS (kind hearted), high morals, compassionate, non-drinker. I'm an easy going person & would like my man the same. Hope to hear from you soon! (tel number omitted).
1) Its a truly long way to describe something. Why does she have to keep going back and forth about herself then the person she wants to meet?
2) She never uses 'and' but cuts down her words by '&'. This is really strange considering that she seems to be extremely long-winded as in part 1.
3) She seems obsessed with genuineness. She uses it twice. Once to describe herself. To describe her ideal man she puts 'REAL' in front of 'GENUINE'. Also check out cues 'True', 'serious intentions', 'cherished' even her 'GENEROUS' is slanted towards being 'kind hearted' which is really again 1 and 2. Why not just say 'kind-hearted' instead of putting it in brackets. Even if you really needed brackets, wouldnt most people prefer 'KIND-HEARTED (generous)"?
4) From the general feel, i think she is either writing in a rush or utterly confused as to what she wants. Definitely she has been cheated on though. The advert is funny. But i know its sad to feel jilted and unloved, depressed and lonely. Seriously, what she needs is the bible and a good community of friends, not racking her brain on how to write a personal ad.
5) Why does she want a 50-65 year old??? Does she believe they are less likely to run away with another woman?
6) Its really ironic that someone who is really in need of a genuine person has no qualms declaring that she is slim and pretty.
7) What in the world is 'high morals'?
8) She ends of by saying she is an 'easy-going' person. What a contradiction to all the demands she has on the type of guy that should call her.
9) Why does she put down that she doesnt want the guy to have prior commitments when she says she loves kids? Oh well, probably she means the guy can have kids but cannot still be in love with the woman he had them with. She says at the start she has no kids!? This gets weirder by the minute.
10) And most importantly. Our standard for real love is that God " loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.. Since God loved us that much, surely we ought to love each other" (1 John 4: 10-11 NLT -- quoted from Rick Warren; better together, what on earth are we here for?
Looking at the newspaper section on personal advertisements is certainly not what the bible means by loving. Probably you could say the main difference is the selfless versus selfish attitude syndrome. Here is one i happened to notice, (cos it was in bigger font than the rest -- wonder how much extra she paid) as i was lining my dining table with newspaper.
LADY 40 yrs no kids, Chinese & slim. I'm looking for someone special & I'm ready to give that special man my genuine love, care & appreciation. I'm pretty, intelligent & have everything a man is looking for! I wish to MEET A REAL GENUINE MAN (all bold is her emphasis), who i can trust & love. I'd like to be cherished, understood & adored. I love children. I'm looking for a TRUE CARING MAN 50-65, without bad habits, single NO COMMITMENTS, serious intentions, educated, GENEROUS (kind hearted), high morals, compassionate, non-drinker. I'm an easy going person & would like my man the same. Hope to hear from you soon! (tel number omitted).
1) Its a truly long way to describe something. Why does she have to keep going back and forth about herself then the person she wants to meet?
2) She never uses 'and' but cuts down her words by '&'. This is really strange considering that she seems to be extremely long-winded as in part 1.
3) She seems obsessed with genuineness. She uses it twice. Once to describe herself. To describe her ideal man she puts 'REAL' in front of 'GENUINE'. Also check out cues 'True', 'serious intentions', 'cherished' even her 'GENEROUS' is slanted towards being 'kind hearted' which is really again 1 and 2. Why not just say 'kind-hearted' instead of putting it in brackets. Even if you really needed brackets, wouldnt most people prefer 'KIND-HEARTED (generous)"?
4) From the general feel, i think she is either writing in a rush or utterly confused as to what she wants. Definitely she has been cheated on though. The advert is funny. But i know its sad to feel jilted and unloved, depressed and lonely. Seriously, what she needs is the bible and a good community of friends, not racking her brain on how to write a personal ad.
5) Why does she want a 50-65 year old??? Does she believe they are less likely to run away with another woman?
6) Its really ironic that someone who is really in need of a genuine person has no qualms declaring that she is slim and pretty.
7) What in the world is 'high morals'?
8) She ends of by saying she is an 'easy-going' person. What a contradiction to all the demands she has on the type of guy that should call her.
9) Why does she put down that she doesnt want the guy to have prior commitments when she says she loves kids? Oh well, probably she means the guy can have kids but cannot still be in love with the woman he had them with. She says at the start she has no kids!? This gets weirder by the minute.
10) And most importantly. Our standard for real love is that God " loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.. Since God loved us that much, surely we ought to love each other" (1 John 4: 10-11 NLT -- quoted from Rick Warren; better together, what on earth are we here for?
posted by efarmer at 3:10:00 PM
1 Comments:
hmm.. well, haha interesting that you are dissecting this one linguistically. Aiyah... news paper ad got space constraints mah, hence the "&"s. & must chop chop describe everything... & emphasize the important features.... &...
-Lou
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