[General] They just lurk and watch our chatting.

[Silverobama]

Kris and I are in an online group with 500 participants in it. Kris said today that "It seems that we two are the only alive people!" and I replied to him "They just lurk and watch our chatting".

Is the italic sentence natural to mean "They are just keeping silent in the group and watching Kris and I chatting"?

 

[emsr2d2]

Kris and I are in an online group with 500 participants.[STRIKE] in it.[/STRIKE] Kris said today, [STRIKE]that[/STRIKE] "It seems that we two are the only people alive [STRIKE]people[/STRIKE] [here]!" and I replied [STRIKE]to him[/STRIKE] "They just lurk and watch [STRIKE]our[/STRIKE] us chatting".

Is the italic sentence natural to mean "They are just keeping silent [STRIKE]in the group[/STRIKE] and watching Kris and [STRIKE]I[/STRIKE] me chatting"?

Yes. The italic version is better than your explanatory version later.

 

[teechar]

"Alive" doesn't make sense in that. Did you perhaps mean "online"?

 

[Silverobama]

"Alive" doesn't make sense in that. Did you perhaps mean "online"?

More or less. I think Kris meant that those participants in the group are "dead" because they don't say anything.

 

[emsr2d2]

I think it works but it would work better as part of a longer (and more sarcastic) sentence. Perhaps, in the middle of a chat, Kris could have suddenly said, as if calling out to a large empty room, "Hello????!!!! HELLOOOOO?! Is there anyone out there? Are we the only two people alive in here?! Ha ha ha!"

 

[Tdol]

"Alive" doesn't make sense in that. Did you perhaps mean "online"?

I'd use active people.