Re:Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer”
by rimantas on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:13PM
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Ok, then what's the code for cup of coffee?
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Re:Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer”
by recursive on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:11PM
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The same. The only reason plausible deniability works is that it's ambiguous.
Re:Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer”
by sliverstorm on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:06PM
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Ambiguous might not be quite the right term. In many cases for such an invite, it's desirable that it be pretty clear you mean a date, but you still retain deniability.
I guess you could say you want the implication to be clear and fairly unambiguous, but not explicit/provable.
Double entendre comes to mind.
Re:Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer”
by stale2002 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:27PM
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"Hey, I'm heading out for coffee in 15, want to join?"
There is a big difference between "lets meet and talk to each other for an hour at the coffee shop on the weekend" and "We are at work, lets take a quick break!"
"Cup of coffee" -- it just depends on the context and how it is asked.