Posted on 02/03/2015 8:40:24 AM PST by Thurstan
Have you ever run across couples who want to tell you “we’re pregnant”?
It’s part of the gender neutrality, everyone is the same, there is no difference between men and women, nonsense.
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Personally I don’t care what they want to say. All in all its probably does more good than harm. Its good that fathers are involved IMO.
Hey, Jerry: Kiss my ass.
ok, I’ll play along:
“We’re pregnant”
What are the due dates?
Who impregnated whom?
Congrats on the twins.
BOGOF?
Afterward they both have a baby, hence they are both ‘having a baby, hence ‘they’ are pregnant.
Yes, I hate when I hear that nonsense coming from men.
Yes, but only one gets pregnant.
It’s a start.
Pregnant means: having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal.
I do not have a uterus; I never had one. I am incapable of being pregnant.
>> Pregnant means: having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal. <<
Sorry, but you must have noticed that that’s only the FOURTH definition in the dictionary you got that from. Do you know why the most common usage would be the fourth definition listed? Because it’s merely colloquial.
“Pregnant” comes from when the French ruled England, and people used French for words which would sound crude in English. (”Pardon my French.”) It roughly means “waiting” and although the spelling is now archaic in French, it’s the present participle of “prendre,” meaning, “to take” or, in this sense, “to take up.”
Something that is “impregnable” is inaccessible not because it insists you wear a condom, but because it cannot be “taken.”
The three earlier definitions of “pregnant,” you will notice are:
1. cogent (as in, “grasping”)
2. abounding in fancy, wit or resourcefulness (capable of “grabbing” attention).
3. rich in significance or implication.
Also, listed fifth because it’s archaic, but that also means its also an earlier meaning:
5. inclined, or disposed towards.
Do you equally cringe when a couple says “We’re buying a house” when it’s only the husband that is working and providing the money to pay for it?
Jerry is obviously of ‘a certain age.’
Maybe the issue is that they are expecting their baby and it is both their bills.
Mark 10:8 got skipped in his Sunday School?
:)
“Anyone who says something with which I disagree must be a woman.”
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