Talk:gay marry
Latest comment: 1 year ago by 70.172.194.25 in topic Nonstandard?
Nonstandard?[edit]
On what basis is this tagged as nonstandard? 70.172.194.25 21:09, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- The standard term is marry. (Gay marry is also grammatically nonstandard/odd.) - -sche (discuss) 21:22, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- The latter grammatical argument is what I expected. There are a lot of multiword verbs of the form "adjective + verb", like slow-cook, slow dance, slow-walk, and those are just examples I found using search suggestions for one adjective. 70.172.194.25 21:57, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- Are those adjective + verb? We have slow as an adverb, with dancing slow as one example. Gay doesn't seem to function adverbially as readily/standardly (at least not with that sense; there's a different dialectal sense), e.g. all the hits for google books:"gay dancing" seem to be the adjective gay describing the noun dancing, although I do see a few jocular uses of [x] gay-divorced [y] as an antonym of this term. - -sche (discuss) 23:30, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- Fair enough, those could be seen as ambiguous. But what about dry clean, dry fire, dry hump, etc.? Our entry dry doesn't have an adverb section. I think there are a lot of other examples of "adjective + verb" but there's not a category or list I can point to. Usually it means "to do verb in an adjective way", although in some cases there has been further semantic development. And these words are often backformations, e.g. slow-cook is probably from slow cooker. 70.172.194.25 23:53, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- Are those adjective + verb? We have slow as an adverb, with dancing slow as one example. Gay doesn't seem to function adverbially as readily/standardly (at least not with that sense; there's a different dialectal sense), e.g. all the hits for google books:"gay dancing" seem to be the adjective gay describing the noun dancing, although I do see a few jocular uses of [x] gay-divorced [y] as an antonym of this term. - -sche (discuss) 23:30, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- The latter grammatical argument is what I expected. There are a lot of multiword verbs of the form "adjective + verb", like slow-cook, slow dance, slow-walk, and those are just examples I found using search suggestions for one adjective. 70.172.194.25 21:57, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- It would also be nonstandard to say that two heterosexual people were getting "straight married". Equinox ◑ 23:56, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- Well, gay marriage is an entry here, while straight marriage isn't. The less usual/more novel case is the one which is more likely to acquire special vocabulary. 70.172.194.25 00:00, 7 August 2022 (UTC)