Comments on: Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the meaning of “marriage”

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By: Holly_in_Cincinnati

Holly_in_Cincinnati — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:22:13 +0000

Marriage has never been consistently defined.

By: runasim

runasim — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:07:48 +0000

After reading Nunberg's well-reasoned argument why the word 'traditional' should be dropped when describing marriage, I'm left with the feeling that we would need a substitute word to make a distinction.
How, then, to distinguish between the meaning of the word 'marriage' as it has been used in the past from the defiinition of marriage as it is evolving in today's world.?
Historical context has to be reflected in any text, and we need a vocabulary to detect it.

By: Holly_in_Cincinnati

Holly_in_Cincinnati — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:01:07 +0000

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