Congratulations

[friedgreentomato]

Thought I would post some good news after all the sad news over the last week.

http://www.channel4.com/news/gay-marriage-first-gay-couple-wed-in-france

[jackthehat]

Well, khandro, providing the laws of the land consider gay-couples to be 'equally-married', I think that will have to suffice.

[mccfluff]

if a couple are married, then they are married, how can you look at that in different ways

they're married...... married is married

you lot are weird

[Khandro]

jth; The laws of this land don't say that yet. Of course you can be like Humpty Dumpty and say 'Words can mean whatever I want them to mean..'
when you see the word Danger you can say it means something else, but as we know, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

[Zeuhl]

Words CAN mean whatever people want them to - that's the point of them

And why dictionaries are constantly revised

[Sqad]

Zeuhl....no! no! no!.....words are a means of communication.....basic words that both parties can understand.The problem arises when one, commonly seen with some ABers , use words that are alien to one of the parties and it is then, when communication through language breaks down.

[jackthehat]

Khandro - No, they don't; but the OP refers to France and the laws in their land *do*.

[Khandro]

Squad, √, well said. Confucius was right; 'If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant, if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone, if this remains undone, morals will deteriorate. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said, this matters above everything.'

[sara3]

perhaps it wasn't just Confucius who wasn't ready for the 21st century.