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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: SO what?
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Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 17:36:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 17:36:22 1984
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"Significant other" is a term which is not restricted to meaning the
person who is your love/life-mate (or soul-mate if you prefer).
By what the term originally meant, most people would have several SO's
and someone you dated would not necessarily be an SO (sad, but true).
I have been biding my time with this, but I couldn't take it anymore
after I saw the phrase "nail the wandering SO."  Sorry, but I don't think
SO is the proper term here.  We should probably go for life-mate
or love-mate or soul-mate or just mate.  SO's are your friends.
-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh