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I found today's comic (#1739) quite sad
ndperfesser:
--- Quote from: Watched Pot on 01 Sep 2010, 21:17 ---single and celibate
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(vocabulary nerd alert)
This is one of my pet peeves. Celibate means not married. Chaste means no sex. That's why Catholic priests can remain in the clergy even if they are rapists but are bounced out if they decide to marry.
You may go back to your regularly scheduled forum thread.
Carl-E:
You're oversimplifying.
The root of the word celibate is caelibs, Latin for "unmarried", and that is certainly one of the remaining meanings. However, by implication (by the church, in fact) of "no sex outside marriage", celibacy took on the meaning "going without sex (as a decision, not just 'cause you can't get any)".
And the vow of a (catholic) priest is poverty, chastitiy and obedience, not celibacy. Of course, the assumption is that you can't keep chaste if you're married, so the one follows from the other.
But really, aside from the assumptions that celibacy is a decision and chastitiy stems from a lack of opportunity/desire, the words are really pretty much interchangeable.
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raoullefere:
--- Quote from: Akima on 04 Sep 2010, 08:15 ---
--- Quote from: Tergon on 04 Sep 2010, 02:57 ---"Ohh-see" is a very common (mis)pronunciation. To say nothing of how much you hear it on TV.
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So true, especially from sports-casters...
Oh, and while we're on the subject of common blunders, the capital of China is not Beige-ing! In Standard Mandarin, it is Bay-jing. Bay as in Baywatch, and Jing as in Jingle-Bells. Simple, yes? No fancy-schmancy French-style "J" sounds in Chinese!
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I liked 'Peking' better. Bay-jing duck just doesn't have that same je ne sais quoi. :-D (I know they've not changed that—yet.) Anyway, if I had a dime for every time I heard some yankee passing through talk about going to Bil-ox-i, I'd be a couple hundred bucks richer. It's Bil-ux-i. No oxen allowed. You can, I suppose, bring all the uxen you wish. (The casinos and Katrina, btw, seem to have managed to correct this. Maybe Bay-jing needs a Harrahs and to have the living shit beaten out of it by a gigantic cat 5 hurricane.)
jwhouk:
...So, how 'bout does Packers, dere hey? Oh, fer Criminy cripes sake, Rogers is da best quarterback of dem all, aina? Hey, start wit' me last with those cheese curds, dere; I'm still finishin' up the last of my fish fries.
Watched Pot:
--- Quote from: ndperfesser on 04 Sep 2010, 10:46 ---
--- Quote from: Watched Pot on 01 Sep 2010, 21:17 ---single and celibate
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(vocabulary nerd alert)
This is one of my pet peeves. Celibate means not married. Chaste means no sex. That's why Catholic priests can remain in the clergy even if they are rapists but are bounced out if they decide to marry.
You may go back to your regularly scheduled forum thread.
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Carl-E has already defended my honor. Every dictionary I've checked (and I have a few ooooold dictionaries) lists "unmarried" and "not engaging in sexual activity" as two separate but equally acceptable definitions of celibate. If it makes you feel better, though, I'll only use celibate in reference to marriage from now on.
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