Talk:fiancé
Why no pronunciation section? —This unsigned comment was added by 69.144.44.83 (talk • contribs).
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The long-term-relationship-without-necessarily-planning-to-ever-get-married senses. Added along with links to http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/10/fianc_s_today_when_boyfriend_doesn_t_cut_it_but_husband_isn_t_accurate.html. —RuakhTALK 05:40, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense: "person engaged to be married". Is this really a sense or should it rather be a "misspelling of.." -entry? At least none of the OneLook dictionaries has it as a sense. The translations can be moved to betrothed. --Hekaheka (talk) 19:02, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
- On second thought, there is this article under dictionary.com [1]. The last chapter reads: "Even outside the realm of same-sex marriages, there seems to be an increasing use of fiancé as the unmarked form for both a man and a woman. But as we may expect, this use may be subject to criticism, especially for those who speak a language in which masculine and feminine forms are distinguished from one." Also Merriam-Webster's [2] discusses the topic under the header "fiancé or fiancée", but does not mention the usage of fiancé as a gender-neutral option: "People may well be anxious, when referring to their betrothed, to make sure that they use the correct term. So the fact that fiancé and fiancée are pronounced exactly the same may cause some degree of worry and uncertainty. These two words are borrowed directly from French, in which language they have equivalent but gendered meanings: fiancé refers to a man who is engaged to be married, and fiancée refers to a woman. We have, as of this date, no evidence suggesting that the meaning of either word is affected by the gender of the person to whom the fiancé or fiancée is engaged." --Hekaheka (talk) 19:23, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
cited Kiwima (talk) 22:24, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 19:26, 27 January 2019 (UTC)