I think my biggest pedantic pet peeves re English usage are less v. fewer, the subjunctive mood, and I v. me overcorrection.
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I hate to be a stickler here but even on your usage I don't see how "the two spouses are marrying eachother" mod bigamy.
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what? I don't even understand the semantics of that.
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They're not spouses before they get married.
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You've been duped by the erosion in standards of use. Marriage is the ceremony, so the person who marries is the person who performs the ceremony. Couples are married because they were, at some point in the past, married- by a priest/rabbi/etc.
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I know this for certain because western standards are based on christianity, which took the ideas from judaism, and in hebrew the grammatical distinction between getting married and doing the marrying is very obvious.
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I understood your explanation originally. I'm suggesting that that is archaic and the convention has actually completely shifted along with the way we conceptualize marriage.
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