Added: 11/20/2005 |
Reading Mount Vernon Personal CodesMount Vernon personal advertisements are full of terminology which can be intimidating to the reader who is unfamiliar with the codes and abbreviations used by the men and women Mount Vernon personal advertisements are created by and for. Because every Mount Vernon personal advertisement is paid for by length, these abbreviations help writers save money while still expressing their desires and personalities. If you are new to Mount Vernon personal advertisement reading, it will serve you well to become acquainted with these terms and concepts so that you will be able to take advantage of the codes in order to be able to find the Mount Vernon personal writer who will suit you best as a friend, a date, or a long-term romantic partner.
Mount Vernon personal writers use abbreviations to describe both who they are, and who they are seeking. The most common abbreviations describe gender: M is short for male, F is short for female, and T describes a transsexual or transgendered person. Therefore, a personal which includes a phrase like "T seeking F" is written by a transgendered person seeking the companionship of one of the many women Mount Vernon is home to. M, F, and T do not tell you anything about the sexual orientation, marital status, or habits of a person, but refer solely to the gender of the person being described.
Another common facet of personal listings is an expression of the race of the person being described. Many writers feel that race is not an important criteria for a romantic partner or a friend, and these people don't mention their own races in their advertisements, nor do they specify a preference for a partner of a specific race, so do not expect to find these abbreviations in every listing which you read. However, it is useful to keep in mind that A describes someone of Asian descent, B is for black/African-American, W is for white/Caucasian, and I tells you that the person being described is of Indian descent. In addition, you will sometimes see J as a shortening of Jewish. Although whether Jewish is a racial distinction remains fairly controversial in all sectors of society, it is still useful to know that J is how personal writers describe this aspect of themselves or their theoretical partner so that you will be able to choose the right listing for you.
The next most common set of terminology explains the romantic availability of the writers and readers. If you spend any amount of time reading the personal advertisements, you will almost certainly encounter the terms S, D, W, and M. These stand for single, divorced, widowed, and married. This is where abbreviations start to get tricky, as W also stands for White and M also stands for male, as you will remember from earlier descriptions of those terms.
To decode a listing like "MWM seeks WWF" you will need to understand the syntax of personal advertisement codes. The first letter in the series of abbreviations generally refers to the marital status of the person being described. In this example, you can tell right away that a married person is looking for a widowed person, because the descriptions start with M and W, which stand for married and widowed. The second letter describes race, white seeking white, and the third term is for gender, so you can tell that a man from Mount Vernon is looking for one of the many women Mount Vernon houses.
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