Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Nominally single???? A voice from the past. Message-ID: <1702@peora.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 11:38:48 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1702 Posted: Tue Oct 8 11:38:48 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Oct-85 08:40:35 EDT References: <285@whuts.UUCP> <533@oakhill.UUCP> <286@whuts.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 31 A minute ago I walked down the hall to see what was going on, and found that one of my fellow-workers here was debating what the proper word for a "female-type person" was. This led to a discussion of net.singles, in which it was pointed out to me that people were debating what I had meant when I said "[only] nominally single" in my last posting here (before I quit reading net.singles). So I figured I'd explain, in case you were really interested, eventhough the original "Nominally single???" posting has long since disappeared from our system. By "only nominally single" I meant something very specific; I meant people who have relationships that by their existence exclude other single people in some sense from their lives, who would not be otherwise excluded. These are relationships that make them "not single," such that they are single in name only (="nominally"), in the sense that, from a legal standpoint, they are "not married". I include in this category people who, if you innocently say "hi" to them, and they happen to be of the opposite sex, say "Hi. Meet my SO." I also include people whose every posting contains the phrase "X and I", where X is the poster's SO, as I feel such postings are particularly pernicious. I guess I don't include the "single parents" posting here among the "only nominally single," since I have yet to encounter one who is either antisocial towards single people, or dogmatic in terms of how their relationship is the ideal to which all other single people should aspire. -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: Ofc: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer Home: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jerpc!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642