Talk:POSSLQ

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[edit] "POSSSLQ" variant

A similar version is POSSSLQ meaning Persons Of Same Sex Sharing Living Quarters. This has been an acronym used by insurance companies to describe same-sex living arrangements.

[edit] "PASSLQ" variant

I've occasionally seen people suggest "PASSLQ" (where the A stands for "appropriate") as a gender-blind version of this acronym. Compared to other suggestions, "PASSLQ" causes the fewest difficulties:

  1. It is easier to distinguish from the original acronym, both in speech and in writing; the extra S makes "POSSSLQ" look and sound like a typo, even if the letters are named separately.
  2. It is consistent with the original acronym (which doesn't abbreviate the "of" either). A consistent version of the same-sex counterpart would read "PSSSLQ": in addition to the "apparent typo" problem, "PSSSLQ" suggests the word "piss" when pronounced as as an acronym.
  3. It does not reveal the first partner's sexual orientation or the second one's gender: the "appropriate" sex for a live-in lover varies from person to person.

--Ingeborg S. Nordén 15:51, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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