From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!furuta Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: An alternative to posslq Article-I.D.: uw-beave.374 Posted: Sun Feb 27 03:05:09 1983 Received: Sun Feb 27 06:31:45 1983 References: watcgl.212 Saturday's Seattle Times carried an article written by Josephine Novak of the Baltimore Evening Sun titled "Unwed friends invent glossary for new age." In this article, Novak reports on a proposal by Psychologist S. Richard Sauber and attorney Carol Weinstein to define terms which handle relationships between unmarried couples. They come up with a remarkably uneuphonious collection of terms. To quote from the newspaper article: Here is a part list of basic terminology that Weinstein and Sauber feel may be applied in making reference to unmarried persons in "union libre": Lockage--A committed relationship between a man and a woman in which the government is not a party, as it is in marriage. The couple live together and remain together in an exclusive relationship as is characteristic of a permanent "lock." A "lock" is a man or woman involved in a lockage. Children resulting from the unit are their "lockets." Linking--Frequent and regular contact in which there in a commitment to be with one another primarily, or as the "main person." The "links" do not live together, but sometimes stay at each other's places of residence. Linkett is used to describe a child when there is one natural parent and the other member of the linkage is not the biological parent; i.e., the child of the natural parent and the linkett of the "link." Children refer to the man or woman who is not their natural parent in the linking or locking arrangement as Rex (man) or Regi (woman).