Re: [UUPoly-L] girlfriends

[Kytte <kyttewynpeny@gmail.com>]

First, I just have to mention that the words below aren't mine directly.
They were taken from the blog:

www.fatherjefffarrow.blogspot.com


Also, I was using his words as an example of what you said: this business of
wordsmithing is difficult business.  Culturally the word "marriage" has a
completely different connotation than the word/phrase "civil union" or
"domestic partnership".


And, Michael, I would also like to add that I don't think I'd keep a
girlfriend who would do that either!!  LOL!!!  *grin laugh*


-Kytte/Babs
W. C. Fields  - "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."



> Michael wrote:




>
> I have two (contradictory) thoughts:
>
> First I would like to say to you as has been said many times to me (and
> which I have come to agree with [with some degree of questioning]), ...
> "Words are important." ... and ... this business of wordsmithing can be
> difficuilt at best ... and ... what a word means to one person may well be
> different than what that same word means to someone else (certainly we have
> all experienced this).
>
> First (sub 2) talk to a lawyer about a word, and it's meaning becomes even
> more important.
>
> Second (the contradictory thought) any woman for who I would have to wear
> an athletic supporter to talk about marriage/domestic partnerships/civil
> unions/all the rest would not long be my girlfriend. ((( ....... unless she
> where really hot, and I was a lecher....... [chuckle] )))
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