to try to convince someone to love you

[Skrej]

Romancing the Stone, anyone?

[Skrej]

Let's be direct - "Netflix and chill" means "have sex".

And here I am, stuck with only a Hulu subscription.

[Charlie Bernstein]

It is old fashioned because the underlying concept is considered old fashioned with the advent of dating and hook-up apps.

If the person is taking a romantic approach to developing a relationship then the word is appropriate. As is usual with English there are alternative terms with very subtle differences in meaning.

Maybe in the UK. In the US, courting, wooing, and romancing were old-fashioned way before the internet. They were old-fashioned when I was a kid. (I'm 68.)

They're all perfectly understandable words, but here they would sound affected.

Sometimes we use seeing: They've been seeing each other for over a year.

But we don't use it in exactly the same way as romancing, so I didn't suggest it as a substitute.

[Charlie Bernstein]

Romancing the Stone, anyone?

Yup. As I say, affected.

[emsr2d2]

Maybe in the UK. In the US, courting, wooing, and romancing were old-fashioned way before the internet. They were old-fashioned when I was a kid. (I'm 68.)

They were old-fashioned by the time I first heard them (and that certainly pre-dates the internet). I think my grandparents' generation would be the last to use them in everyday language. We don't really have a replacement for them now because people don't tend to behave in the same way. If someone is romantically interested in someone else, they tend to just ask them out (ask them if they would like to go on a date). If they say "Yes", great - they go on their first date and, if they get on well, they go on more. Then they're said to be "dating", "going out with each other" or "seeing each other". If the other person says "No", oh well, never mind!