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		| Originally posted by bilmore I think you have them reversed, though.  "Touching base" is a voluntary thing, allowing for choice in the other's part, and so is more attuned to the formal, respectful vous, while pinging is intrusive and involuntary - you HAVE TO packet-respond - and so is the familiar.
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 Man, I hope you are pretty.