Saturday's Storyteller: "There should be a word for that moment when you encounter someone you met online that you never thought you'd meet, in the flesh."
by Belinda Roddie There should be a word for that moment when you encounter someone you met online that you never thought you'd meet, in the flesh. Luckily for everyone alive, I've come up with that word: eDezvous. Or, if you're pedantic and don't like capital letters in the middle of your words, edezvous would work just as well. Simple enough word to create: Just slap that iconic lower case e in front of the word rendezvous after the ren has been sawed off like the end of a trailer inhabitant's shotgun, and you have a beautiful mutilation of the French language and an homage to the World Wide Web as it was in the 1990s. An eDezvous is rather difficult to encounter because usually, who you know is far away enough not to wind up at the same café where you get your typical five ounce hot chocolate in an eight ounce mug so the extra whipped cream doesn't spill over the end. I have had friends as far as Florida and as close as two towns north of me. In f