Re: [UUPoly-L] definitions; A NEW WORD NEEDED

["Bear" <beardrummer@gmail.com>]

oh, this could be fun... and dangerous for me to say....

our Pride (lion grouping)?

the Gaggle (geese grouping, usually applied to humans when they are a mobile 
group of noisily talking girls)
(ducking and running - hmm... what are a group of ducks called?

On a serious note, I believe household would be a good, accurate, and 
`appropriately generalized for the various styles' word.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wabaldwin@aol.com>
To: <uupoly-l@uupa.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] definitions; A NEW WORD NEEDED


> Or why not just use "household"?
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gentlemonster@lycos.com
> To: uupoly-l@uupa.org
> Sent: Sat, 19 May 2007 4:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] definitions; A NEW WORD NEEDED
>
>     ---- Douglass Mitchell Modisett <mmodis@3oaks.com> wrote:
>
>   > Dear Cat and other UUpolys
>
>   > Part of the problem is the inadequacy of our language. A group of 
> wives
>
>   > for a single husband is call a Harem, or better spelled a
>
>   > 'Her-em'. and a group of husbands for a single wife could and should 
> be
>
>   > called a 'His-em.' Mitch
>
>   cute - but no see-gar.
>
>   The word, just as an fyi, means "forbidden" or "prohibited", as it 
> refers
>   to the place in the household off limits to men.
>
>   The Arabic word "hareem" can also read to mean sacred -- and perhaps a
>   fuller translation as "set apart due to its sacredness".
>
>   A more important issue: if the partners of a given mongamous 
> relationship
>   are called a "couple," how do you refer to the partners of a polyamorous
>   configuration? One author I read uses the French term "menage" --
>   truncating from "menage a trois," but appropriate as the single word
>   literally means "household."
>
>   For referring to one's plural spouses, one could refer to "the others in
>   our menage"...
>
>   Or, simply but not as accourately/inclusively: just use "menage"...
>
>   Or: "my better two-thirds/three-fourths/four-fifths" etc., LOL
>
>   Desmond Ravenstone
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