Thursday, May 13, 2010

If you wear a signet ring on your ring finger, does it mean you have to have sex after marriage?

This girl at my school told me that if you wear your signet ring on your left hand, ring finger, you are giving up your virginity to your parents until marriage.


Is this true?If you wear a signet ring on your ring finger, does it mean you have to have sex after marriage?
Interesting ambiguity:





[you have to have s** after marriage]





The deontic modal can take scope over either of two segments according to the following parsings:





1) 'HAVE TO' [have s** after marriage]





or





2) 'HAVE TO HAVE S***' [after marriage]





yielding two distinct interpretations, although horny young estupidos will be more keenly interested in one of these, while more or less satisfied married couples will be concerned with the other.





Way to go, kids, you're learning to think ahead (no pun).

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