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Originally Posted by SeatClutcher  (I'm also a strong opponent of the oft-heard line, "It's just semantics." It's rarely ever "just" semantics. Words can shape perception.) |
Well, to get off on a tangent for a moment, as I so often do... I REALLY started thinking about all of this when, in a prior life, I was dating a Mexican (the from a rancho in Mexico variety) and began to notice that it was quite common for his particular cirlce to use
Seņora (Mrs.) to refer to married women, AKA not virgins, and
Seņorita (Miss) to refer to virgins... Sometimes they would really go out of their way to emphasize the fact that a girl was a
Seņora and not a
Seņorita. (I am talking about their state of virtue here, not their marital status.) Maybe it stems from the rancho custom of being considered "married" before they were actually married...? The only real requirement to being "married" was to "steal" a girl (lit.
robar una vieja), which consisted of meeting at a predetermined spot in the middle of the night, at as young as 15 years of age. Well, I told you it was a tangent...
Anyhow, I think that for my invitations, I just free-styled with whatever I felt like at the time... Actually, I put a friend in charge of doing most of it... Problem solved...
