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Question by ~Amy~: What exactly does "playing house" mean? When someone asks "What have you been doing just playin house?" do they mean that to be insulting? My fiancé and I bought a house recently and my stepmom always says that to me. Best answer for What exactly does "playing house" mean?:
Answer by the best there will ever be
haha i think it means if yu been having sex
Answer by Merball
I think it's insulting and she's probably not happy with the decision to live together before marriage. She's being condescending and acting as if you made an immature decision.
Answer by K L
Maybe she is cleaning?
Answer by Frumpy@YA!
Playing house usually has a negative connotation to it. It implies that you are not really ready to be living together yet. > Many researchers now argue that our penchant for combining households before > taking vows is undermining our ability to commit. Meaning, the precautions we > take to ensure marriage is right for us may wind up working against us.
Answer by baxterville
It's a slightly snarky way of suggesting maybe you should get married before living together. That phrase was popular in the '70s, mostly, when it became widespread that couples live together without being married. (If you've ever watched the show "Three's Company" you'll get the impression that living together was considered scandalous.) It's suggesting that you're not actually committed to each other, since you haven't taken legal/moral steps to cement your union. But if I were you and that's the extent of her objection, I wouldn't make a big issue of it if you're planning to get married, anyway. It's just a cultural phrase that was more fitting to your stepmother's generation. Chances are if you pressed her about it, she'd say she was joking.
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Mo Yan s the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of China's government, but the Swedish Academy says that it did not take political considerations into account when selecting the popular novelist.
Novelist Mo Yan, this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offending those who uphold it.
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Mo, whose popular, sprawling, bawdy tales bring to life rural China, is the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of the authoritarian government. And Thursday's announcement by the Swedish Academy brought an explosion of pride across Chinese social media.
The state-run national broadcaster, China Central Television, reported the news moments later, and the official writers' association, of which Mo is a vice chairman, lauded the choice. But it also ignited renewed criticisms of Mo from other writers as too willing to serve or too timid to confront a government that heavily censors artists and authors, and punishes those who refuse to obey.
The reactions highlight the unusual position Mo holds in Chinese literature. He is a genuinely popular writer who is embraced by the Communist establishment but who also dares, within careful limits, to tackle controversial issues like forced abortion. His novel "The Garlic Ballads," which depicts a peasant uprising and official corruption, was banned.
"He's one of those people who's a bit of a sharp point for the Chinese officials, yet manages to keep his head above water," said his longtime U.S. translator, Howard Goldblatt of the University of Notre Dame. "That's a fine line to walk, as you can imagine."
Typical of his ability to skirt the censors' limitations, Mo had retreated from Beijing in recent days to the rural eastern village of Gaomi where he was raised and which is the backdrop for much of his work. He greeted the prize with characteristic low-key indifference.
"Whether getting it or not, I don't care," the 57-year-old Mo said in a telephone interview with CCTV from Gaomi. He said he goes to his childhood hometown every year around this time to read, write and visit his elderly father.
"I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people," said Mo, whose real name is Guan Moye and whose pen name "Mo Yan" means "don't speak." He chose the name while writing his first novel to remind himself to hold his tongue and stay out of trouble.
The state media hoopla and government cheer contrasted with the last Nobel prizes given to Chinese. Beijing disowned China-born French emigre dramatist, novelist and government critic Gao Xingjian when in 2000 he became the only other Chinese writer to win the literary prize.
After imprisoned democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Peace Prize two years ago, the government heaped scorn on the award as a tool of the West and put diplomatic and economic relations with
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