Re:Snowden given safepass to Ecuador [pdf]
by Svip on Thursday June 27, 2013 @06:29AM
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Marital status single? I guess for legal reasons, he left his partner behind. 'Baby, I know we need to talk, but I am currently on the run from the American government.'
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Methinks you've spent too much time on facebook. In the dead tree world we don't usually have an "It's Complicated" option for marital status.
He left his girlfriend behind. He's not married and never has been.
True. I had forgotten the exact status, still, I was merely using it as a pretext for my terrible joke.
I'd assume that single in this sense means "not married", as opposed to "not in a relationship at all".
Wikipedia backs this up [1] but I'm not familiar with Ecuadorian legal nomenclature!
Re:Snowden given safepass to Ecuador [pdf]
by alex_doom on Thursday June 27, 2013 @06:37AM
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Married to his ex-job maybe
Quite often marital status is simply used to indicate if the person in question is married or not. As far as I know that wasn't the case for Snowden.
I wonder if it would have complicated the whole thing if he had been.
Re:Snowden given safepass to Ecuador [pdf]
by malcolmmcc on Thursday June 27, 2013 @06:35AM
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Huh? He wasn't married before. But yeah, he left his girlfriend to keep her safe. Apparently she knew absolutely nothing until he blew the whistle.