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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Not to my – certainly limited - knowledge, Benjamin. <font
color=black><span style='color:black'>All major religions. although having
somewhat differing understandings of marriage, recognize that marriage involves
the union of the two complementary sexes in a relationship that normally is for
childbearing and childrearing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Whether it is legitimate to refer to
same-sex <i><span style='font-style:italic'>unions</span></i> as ‘marriage’
is debated and certainly not widely accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Fritz Goerling<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Benjamin Barrett wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Marriage
has been known to encompass same-sex couples for at least 2000 years, though
lexicographers did not reflect that fact in their dictionaries.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In modern times, dictionaries have recognized the word marriage as
including same-sex couples for the last decade give or take a few years. Many
same-sex couples have used the word marriage to refer to their situation for
years before that, regardless of their legal status or whether dictionaries
recognized it. Lexicographically, nothing happened in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State> as laws recognizing same-sex
marriage were already present in other countries. BB<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On May 17, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Fritz Goerling wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='background:white'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Right - the “nemesis.” What do
lexicographers do with youthful unorthodox uses of words like
“wicked” or “bad” to mean “good/cool” which
usually go out of fashion soon?” Slang dictionaries? Or what to do with
the recent judicial redefinition of marriage by the Supreme Court in<st1><st1><st1><st1>California</st1></st1></st1></st1>?<o style="font-size: 0px;"></o><o style="font-size: 0px;"></o></span></font><font
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<p style='background:white'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Fritz Goerling</span></font><o style="font-size: 0px;"></o><font
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Scott Nelson wrote:</span></font><o style="font-size: 0px;"></o><font
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>It's
interesting to watch what happens to words when any of five<span
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inconvenient factors intrude on an original (if there is such a thing<span
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as an origninal): 1) emotion 2) politics 3) metaphorical use 4)<span
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The issue of words losing/changing meaning is one that can<span
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easily be resolved by extending definitions<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>…</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black'><br>
It will continue to be the nemesis<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>
of lexicographers and teachers in hard copy.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
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