Fun With Language Howlers Lost In Translation

Friday, January 12, 2007

Dating Advice Should Prince Charming Offer Cinderella A Drink?

I admit I've watched programmes about escort girls and wondered if I could do that. I'd be guaranteed a meal and payment. But no, at heart I'm still a romantic, waiting for Prince Charming.

Would Prince Charming have offered Cinderella a drink, or cup of coffed?

Cinderella went to a ball, all dressed up and looking glamorous. If he'd simply invited her out for a cup of coffee, she could have gone in her old clothes and not troubled that busy fairy godmother for a lovely new gown.

Imagine if Cinderella had called her fairy godmother and said, 'I need a new dress. I'm going to meet a prince.'

Fairy grandmother would have said, 'Where are you going? Is it a palace?''

Er, no. Actually it's the pub round the corner, for a drink.'

She couldn't say that, because she was under age. Or the reader is.

She might have said, 'We're going out to get a cup of coffee for five minutes. He just wants to look at me and see 'if we get on'. '

Can you imagine what fairy Godmother would have said? 'Were you expect me to send a carriage for you? He'll think your being pretentious.'

I'm a romantic. I want a traditional date, in which the man drives over to the woman's area, takes her out for a meal and respects her and gains her confidence by treating her like a lady on their first date.

Note. It is usual for the gentleman to come to the lady's place to meet her.

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