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Sep
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1st
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2003
08:28 am
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Story about missing kid unaccountably fails to blame Internet
. I want my daily dose of irrational journalistic hysteria!
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2003-09-01 03:03 am (UTC)
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daneel-olivaw.livejournal.com
"...man and wife..." Grrr.
Husband
and wife.
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2003-09-01 03:38 am (UTC)
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ewx.livejournal.com
Well, possibly; people talk about "their man" as well as "their husband".
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2003-09-01 04:07 am (UTC)
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daneel-olivaw.livejournal.com
Given that the person I was quoting was the BBC journalist, I'd have hoped for more gender neutrality.
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2003-09-01 07:36 am (UTC)
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gwendraith.livejournal.com
Husband and woman then? ;-)
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2003-09-02 04:22 am (UTC)
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gerald_duck
What's wrong with "couple"?
(Or "tuple", if things get
really
interesting...)
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2003-09-02 04:33 am (UTC)
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gwendraith.livejournal.com
I was being funny ;-p Couple is perfect :-)
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2003-09-02 04:52 am (UTC)
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ewx.livejournal.com
I think "couple" conveys slightly different information - it doesn't tell you whether they are married (or in this case, were pretending to be married).
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Date:
2003-09-02 05:52 am (UTC)
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gerald_duck
If married is important, why not "married couple"?
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2003-09-01 05:11 am (UTC)
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imc.livejournal.com
Short for "a man and his wife", presumably. Doesn't seem anything worth getting worked up about.
Odd though that we don't have such similar constructions as "man and sister".
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Date: 2003-09-01 05:11 am (UTC)Odd though that we don't have such similar constructions as "man and sister".