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[-] vas@lemmy.ml 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Mike: rachel and i are no longer dating

rachel: mike that's a horrible way of telling people we're married

[-] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

married people still date each other

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago
[-] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

we really don’t need to qualify everything with some… i didn’t say all married people do anything….
there’s really nothing that all married people do.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I mean it more in the way it depends on what you qualify as dating, I would even say that not every pair of people who are not married yet but are dating can be called dating

[-] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

so people who are dating aren’t dating?
sounds like some “going steady” bs that i’ll have no part of.
“oh we’re dating but we’re not dating dating”
people are so afraid of using their vocabulary they just add new definitions to words….
just like George Orwell warned against

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

Yes, like living together, sometimes even with kids, I don't think that's dating, but I'm so 1984 in that, yeah

[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I think "dating" has many different meanings and not everyone agrees with them. You seem to use it with the meaning of "are in a romantic relationship". Others use it like "are seeing each other to assess romantic compatibility" while others again use it as "are involved intimately but not or not yet in a committed relationship".

It would be cool if people just said what they meant. But I guess they find some comfort in the ambiguity.

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