Mawwage!

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I was reading a thread on a Christian forum a few minutes ago that debated when, exactly, a couple is married: when they say "I do?" When they sign the legal document? When the pastor pronounces a blessing?

Closing it out, I discovered ladyarkham has been (in my entirely biased opinion) doing a rocking job of arguing for what I think is a sensible view on

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[engelhardtlm1]

Very nice

[irked_indeed]

I was pulling from a J.D. Greear sermon on the canonicity of Scripture, primarily, but it sounds like the same underlying principle.

And good point - governments would probably find it very hard to force a change in usage. I could see some governments making the dictionary a government-run operation, though, and declaring what the official definitions are regardless of actual usage.