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I have a question. How do you know when someone is flirting with you? I just do not understand flirting at all so I do not know how to recognize it. Or how to even flirt. It never really seemed like such an important thing. But apparently it is?

I mean, for us sylvari we are blunt. If we like someone we tell them. We do not see a reason to beat around the bush, you could say. But it seems to be a thing the other races do.

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I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to call it important.

When people flirt with you
Either they act like they like you
Or they act like they dislike you.
Take your pick

How do you flirt? Now, there's a question.

Actually that guy up there's not too wrong! Though the pretending they don't like you thing is so elementary school, Taciea, don't do that!

Flirting's fun, that's what it is. Not everyone thinks it's important! And in the end you kind of do need to tell someone you like them. The guessing game's fun for a while, but it usually doesn't go anywhere if no one takes the first plunge into directness!

Taicea, Taicea. People flirt for many reasons. How to tell, well, that all depends on the person doing the flirting.

There can be verbal clues, such as how pretty or handsome someone looks to more physical ones such as a light touch on the small of one's back, to a gentle lift to the chin. Usually, they are accompanied by gentle, yet persuasive words.

Then, there are some people that flirt who are not subtle at all. This could mean cat calls to lewd comments about one's body. As you had put it once before, they are generally a lot more blunt.

I'm definitely not an expert on the subject, but you'll want to look out for a few things. Eye contact, making excuses to spend lots of time with you, affectionate touch, and compliments are some of the big ones. Friends do some of those things too, but they're probably flirting if the seem to focus excessively on you, or if they get flustered---but if they're confident they might not. It's the furthest thing from an exact science that I know of, that's why I'm so bad at it.

Heh, from the way I've heard it told, flirting is mostly a human problem. Flirting's fun, yeah, but nothin' wrong with being upfront either.

Um...well...they sort of...say things a certain way. Like...

[IN HIS BEST "SUAVE" VOICE:] "How you doin'?"

If it helps, most people have trouble recognizing flirting when it's directed at them, even if we understand what flirting is.

[That's. that's probably not all that helpful.

Let's try something else.] But, uh, flirting is different for everyone, so it's usefu to have a baseline and compare how someone treats you with how they treat everyone else. If they're being more physically affectionate towards you than other people, or if they pay you more compliments, they're probably flirting.

They'll flatter you, try and get your attention in any way they can. Some men do it by acting like idiots.

It's different for your race?

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