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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Replying to @PereGrimmer
It's a completely lost war, but the only person at a wedding marrying anyone is the priest/rabbi/etc. Couples get married. The idea that the priest and the couple are all marrying is creepy, to put it mildly, and I don't understand why this doesn't bother more people.
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Replying to @RotemEren @PereGrimmer
archaic usage? i would say the two spouses are marrying each other and the there is a third person who is presiding over their marriage. the idea that the presiding official is performing the marriage doesn't sit right with me.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
Some of us value tradition...pic.twitter.com/vXE3oqx3zi
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