Marriage and Gayrriage:婚姻與同姻(中英文版)
文章來源: TNEGI//ETNI2012-05-10 16:39:52


異性結合(婚姻)與同性結合(同姻)

Marriage and Gayrriage
 

本文隻有一個目的,構造一個單一的英文單詞來表達已經成為事實的同性同居這一人類行為現象。

The purpose of this article is to suggest a single English word to express a phenomenon of married and cohabiting in same-sex or gay marriage that has been realized in a fact of human behavior in social sciences.
    今天上午坐公交車時,在一個座位上撿到一張他人丟棄的本地出版的當日Express(今日快報)。首頁新聞是美國現任總統、立誌競選連任下屆總統的巴拉克奧巴馬發表講話,首次公開承認gay marriage的合法性。在讀那篇新聞時看到這個術語後的第一感覺是這個說法很不簡潔,為什麽不叫gayrriage呢?這多簡單啊,而且,作為一個單一詞形的名詞,它可以轉化為其它幾類相關詞匯,例如:

This morning when I took a bus to my office, I picked up a local newspaper Express that was left in a seat. The news in the first page is about the president Barack Obamas new stance on “gay marriage” and he support it to be legitimate. Mr. Obama is running for his second term of the USA president. He is the first president who publically clarify his stance on this issue. When I was reading this news, my first filling was that the term “gay marriage” is not enough simple. Why cannot we use a simpler single word like “gayrriage”? What should it be simple! And as a noun in the form of single word, it can be easily derived into following words like:
                gayrry
                gayrried
                gayrrying
                gayrriable
                gayrriably
                gayrrize or gayrrilize
                gayrrization or gayrrilization
   重要的是,有了這個簡單的詞匯後,通過嚴謹地定義兩類不同性質的同居可以為今後一切場合下的語言表達提供便利,並排除語言歧義:

More importantly, once we have this simple word, we can provide a necessary convenience in linguistic expression under all situations without any ambiguity with the word marriage by rigorously define two different types of cohabiting” as follows: 

1.婚姻:至少兩個成年且適齡的異性間相約結合而形成一種同居生活的人類行為。這種行為及其內在關係的核心內容表現為兩個異性間有基於性器官的交媾活動或性行為和生育並撫養屬於他們的共同血緣後代的能力。

1) Marriage: A human behavior that at least two heterosexual adults in proper age combined in their personal and legal agreement to living together and form a family, in which a core content of this behavior as well as it inherent relationship performs an ability that the two heterosexual adults have sexual intercourse based on their different sexual organs, or sexual behavior, by which they may bear their common blood offspring.

2.同姻:至少兩個成年且適齡的同性間相約結合而形成一種同居生活的人類行為。這種行為及其內在關係的核心內容表現為兩個同性間基於肉體接觸的仿異性間性行為但卻沒有生育屬於他們的共同血緣後代的能力。如果這類同居者想要有一個後代,必須在其同姻行為中引入至少一個異性作為第三方為其提供生育後代的生物學基礎,或者領養出自他人的、與自己沒有血緣關係的後代。

2) Gayrriage: This word originates from gay marriage. It is a human behavior that at least two homosexual adults in proper age combined in their personal agreement to living together and form a family-like social unit, in which a core content of this behavior as well as it inherent relationship performs an ability that the two homosexual adults have mimic sexual behavior based on their body touch between sexual and other organs, by which they are unable to bear their common blood offspring unless a heterosexual adult as the third part was introduced to offer a biological basis to bear dependents that are not the common blood offspring of the gays.

由此可見,兩類同居及其性行為之間存在著本質的區別,不應該用同一個術語來表達,否則會造成概念和邏輯的混亂。

Thus it can be seen that the types of cohabiting as well as their sexual behaviors are essentially different from each other, we should not use a same word to describe them; otherwise confusion and confliction may be caused among concepts and logics in some situations, especially in some scientific researches.
   
在中文裏,姻在廣義上表示的是一種相互關係,而婚姻則指的是兩個異性由於結婚而形成的一種相互關係,所以,同姻指的就是兩個同性間因為相約結合一起生活而形成的一種相互關係。

The English word marriage corresponds to 婚姻 in Chinese and word. The word 婚姻 is constructed in two characters: and 姻。The former means marry or marrying, and the latter means a general relationship, thus a marriage means a relationship between two heterosexual adults who establish the marriage. So, similarly we can say that a gayrriage indicates a relationship between two homosexual adults who establish the gayrriage.

從性別組合類型的角度看,婚姻隻有一種形式,而同姻有兩種形式:至少兩個男性間的同姻和至少兩個女性間的同姻。

From an angle of the types of sexual combination, marriage has only one form, and the gayrriage has different two forms: 1) male-male gayrriage, and 2) Female-female gayrriage.