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From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Naming Conventions
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 15:52:51 EST
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The various acronyms (SO, POSSLQ, etc.) sound awkward. "Hubstitute" is pretty
clever, but it could get old after a while. (What's a good female counterpart
to this term?)

I know a woman who refers to the man she lives with as "The man I live with."
I like this term because it seems natural, and it flows off the tongue easily.
It also doesn't have any possessive connotations, as most other terms do.

In sentences such as "The man/woman I live with and I ...", it's a bit
unwieldly, but it can usually be substituted with "We" or "<First Name> and I".
-- 
Bob Kaplan	{ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!trwrba!cadovax!bob

"All the clouds turn to words.  All the words float in sequence.
 No one knows what they mean.  Everyone just ignores them."