Saturday, June 18, 2016

How Marriage Equality Changed Americans' Lives

Before marriage equality Americans:

woke up, checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
drank coffee or tea while they checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
went to work
before starting work, checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
during work, checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
ate lunch and checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
went back to work
checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
finished work
checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
headed home or stopped for an after work drink
checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
ate dinner
checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
watched television while they checked their email, Facebook and Twitter
got interrupted during sex by a private message on Facebook
got interrupted during sex again by a text message from a friend
went to sleep, dreamed about checking their email, Facebook and Twitter

After marriage equality Americans:

woke up ...... oh the hell with listing all of that again, they did everything they did before marriage equality! Hey, I've got to check my email, Facebook and Twitter, excuse me!

WORD HISTORY:
Equal-The ultimate origin of this word is unknown. It goes back to Latin "aequus," which meant "even, level;" thus also, "impartial." This then gave Latin "aequalis," meaning "the same, like, without variation, on the same level." English borrowed the word as "equal" in the second half of the 1300s, likely reinforced by French "egal," which was the French form of Latin "aequalis." English is the only Germanic language to use a form of the Latin as a primary word, although German borrowed the French form, "egal," but it is not their primary word with that meaning, as they use their own word "gleich," which is really the same word as English "like," which was once spelled "gelic." In German it is part of a fairly common expression, "Es ist mir egal," which literally means, "to me it is equal," but the real meaning of which is, "it is all the same to me," or, "it doesn't matter to me."

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Doug said...

Yes tech has changed our lives

7:27 PM  

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