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Agree others. You're fine until you start incorporating tidbits from her talks into your daily life in the hope that you'll bump into her, and she'll recognize your interest in a certain word coincided with something she talked about, after which you causally mention that you're a symposium on the evolution of cockney slang, and you have a spare ticket (even though the event is free and open to the public) and you just now thought she might want to go along, which of course she would, and the event becomes a date as you woo her with your literary prowess and treat her to an Italian soda. I'd go on, but that would be weird.