English for dating online

Question 1

dating profile

Answer 1

brief written description of yourself which you hope will attract a romantic partner.

Nowadays many people use online dating apps to find love and romance. This involves writing a dating profile – a short description of yourself which you hope makes you appear attractive to other people looking for love online.

Question 2

deceptive

Answer 2

making you believe something that is not true.

If you’re very deceptive, so if you have no friends, and you never go to the pub, and you said in your profile that your most fun thing to do is hanging out with your friends on a Saturday night, …

Question 3

hanging out

Answer 3

spending a lot of time with someone, often friends.

If you’re very deceptive, so if you have no friends, and you never go to the pub, and you said in your profile that your most fun thing to do is hanging out with your friends on a Saturday night,

Question 4

walking a fine line

Answer 4

finding a balance between opposing ideas, or between two sides so as not to annoy either side.

But they’re walking a fine line in trying to balance between being attractive and not completely disappointing.

Question 5

catfishing

Answer 5

trying to attract someone by pretending to be someone else on social media.

Online dating has also created new vocabulary of its own. Here’s Nicola Fox Hamilton again explaining the meaning of two new words, catfishing and wokefishing,
Wokefishing is a version of catfishing, and catfishing is where someone creates a profile that isn’t them at all, so a complex false identify usually with the purpose of looking for, or pretending to get into involved in, love or romance.

Question 6

wokefishing

Answer 6

pretending to share the same political and social opinions as a person that you are attracted to.

Wokefishing is a version of catfishing, and catfishing is where someone creates a profile that isn’t them at all, so a complex false identify usually with the purpose of looking for, or pretending to get into involved in, love or romance. Wokefishing is when the person is generally who they say they are, but they say that they’re much more liberal in their values and political attitudes than they actually are.