Internet dating is the modern way
Curteis Chat hasn't yet been registered by Google's auto-web crawler, Googlebot, which takes a while to recognise new sites and log them into the system.
Instead a charming little 'dating' site called Curteis Corner popped up top of the search, a location where gentlemen can find pretty ladies to 'date', no less.....!!
Maybe the ladies would like to view our site in return, and consider equipping themselves with some nice gold pieces for Christmas. We can recommend a stockist.
The only thing that strikes me about the site is that the person running it can't really be a Curteis (our spelling is pretty unusual and there are only a few hundred of us in the UK total).
The site's English isn't quite right, and is typical of someone who's picked up their English somewhere other than the classroom. It comes across as a foreigner who's decided that Curteis is a classy name to trade on and they've borrowed it. They didn't ask permission of course. We can only protect our name in the jewellery business, sadly, where as far as we know, we are still unique!
We'll stick with our blog's name Curteis Chat for now, and see if we get any interesting callers. We'll keep you posted, of course. It could keep us lively while we await the first blog comment.
Curtei
UPDATE - 'Curteis Corner' is a little hamlet in Kent, probably the inspiration for the Curteis Corner dating site name. I wonder if the Parish Council gave their permission for their village name to be so used!
There is another 'Curteis' named town called Curteis Point, situated on the southern outskirts of Vancouver, British Columbia. This was founded by my great uncle who emigrated there in 1908. He built a shack on the coast in a beautiful wilderness. Today it's a hot real estate area for wealthy British Columbians. He returned to Britain to fight in WW1, losing all his property rights, but his name endures.
The Importance Of ChattingCHAT
The word 'chat', thanks to the internet, is clearly becoming associated with only one aspect of human interaction, a bit like the word 'gay' used to be a much broader term. The narrowing of the meaning of words is not always one way traffic. In 1890, for example, the fashionable word for 'gay' was 'earnest' as in 'the importance of being......' ' by Oscar Wilde. If the words 'chat' and 'chatroom' are suffering from an attenuation of meaning, I want to challenge that. Humans are capable of chatting about all kinds of things and do so on a daily basis. Chat is a word we need to keep available to describe what we all like to do, the way we find out important information about all manner of things. We will not be worried about the newer associations of the word. Chat is too important a part of life to be handed over exclusively as a word for dating. If this is becoming the next battle over political correctness, let's take a stand now. Human interaction is as broad as it ever was, and a good chat is still the best way to put the world to rights. Let's keep it that way!
TheTh
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