Sologamy

[Siely]

"These people"  means people who are employed by professional journalists , are paid well, but still produce poor quality work or are on a completely different wavelength.

[aghadowey]

"These people"  means people who are employed by professional journalists , are paid well, but still produce poor quality work or are on a completely different wavelength.

So you are jumping to conclusions based on some sort of class bias 

[Zaphod99]

"School ties"? Does that mean the physical stripey thing around one's neck, or the ongoing allegiance to the alma mater?

Zaph

[DianaCanada]

Learning can be a gerund (a verb form used as a noun), for example “Learning is a life-long process”, similarly, “Walking is good for you”.  However, I also don’t believe the way it was used in the earlier post is correct, in that is it correct to pluralize a gerund?  I will ponder this while I try to fall asleep tonight and see if it keeps me awake.

[Erato]

If we can pluralize 'teaching,' 'saying,' and 'finding,' then why lot 'learning'?

[Siely]

Zaphod99

Original post was about a social trend called Sologamy that future FH hobbyists will discover.  It's promotion (many other issues are simply ignored) in the press is due to the people who successfully gain employment in a very competitive profession. Very high competition will mean high scrutiny of their education. Hope that helps your enquiry.

[heywood]

From the article,
“ Marrying yourself has nothing to do with vanity or seeking adoration”.
Celebrities or those seeking that status are mentioned but also others who are seeking something else in their lives for other reasons.

It is not a legal process so why would it be a ‘worrying trend for future FH hobbyists’? Presumably marrying oneself would not necessitate a change of surname.

[Siely]

Okay so you aren't worried,  your choice.

I would like to know about these things as a FH hobbyist, I think fully appreciating society and its norms at different points of time is the hardest part of FH and perhaps the most rewarding if you really want to understand ancestors.

[heywood]

My point was that, as a family history enthusiast, from my experience,  personal and on this site, sologamy would not present particular difficulties in research.

It is not yet a norm but may point to people’s state of mind or needs which may help understand society at a particular time, as you say.

However, it would not be as difficult to unpick as, for example, relationships where surnames are used for a time but then the persons move on and they and children use new names.

We come across family groups where the children are ‘yours, mine and ours’ and records have to be acquired to sort out ancestry.

I would say they are the kind of changing norms which we have come to appreciate in our shared histories.