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[wickedflea]

Why is the word "come," when used in an orgasmic sense, so often always spelled with a "U"? That's always seemed silly to me.

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[hydrozoa.livejournal.com]

i don't think people have made the connection and realize that cum = come. they think it's a whole, new, independent word.

"'i'm coming'? but that wouldn't make any sense!"

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, could be. People ARE awfully stupid. :)

[skid-rose.livejournal.com]

I hate that. I always use "come" in an effort to lead humanity back to the appropriate spelling. It's not working.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Good work, mate. At least we be secure in our own righteousness.

we be

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

^can

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I blame Quiet Riot.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Let's blame Slade instead. I don't like to think of Kevin DuBrow in this context. :)

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

That really bugs me, too!!! I refuse to spell it "cum," I always use "come." Not that I write in the orgasmic sense on a regular basis...

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Yeah, it doesn't often, um, come up. I'm not sure why I was even thinking about that, um, come to think of it.

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

Were you reading soft core porn stories at work again?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Nope, editing them. We have a new imprint.

[dangerpest.livejournal.com]

To is a Preposition, Come is a Verb.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Big ups to Lenny!

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

I used to walk by this store all the time on Waringerstrasse in Vienna. It was a furniture store. The name of it was CUM. This was endlessly amusing because 'cum' in German means, well, nothing. The best we can figure is that the owners meant to call it COME, like, come inside and buy over priced furniture...but they got it wrong.

haha!

(this little story is neither here nor there, but it still makes me giggle!)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! Just think--the people who work there are Cum salesmen! Cum clerks! I wonder if, when people quit there, they put that on their resumes.

For some unexplained reason, all of this just made me think of this guy.

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

Cum clerks!
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

Customer Service for Cum!

HAHAHAHHAHAHA

really, we can go on and on about this....

[seeds-of-peace.livejournal.com]

come is not a noun. cum is. cumming is the art of producing cum.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Merriam-Webster and I ain't buyin' it.

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I gotta tellya, when I'm reading online porn, nothing knocks me out of my enraptured haze like a sudden ejaculation of "OMG O O O O O IM GONNA CUM! OH YEAH OH!"

Or sumthing like that.

huh huh huh, you said "ejaculation"

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I have a feeling it has something to do with our culture's need to make everything to do with sex somehow dirty. I'm not exactly sure how "U" = "dirty," but it just does.

Re: huh huh huh, you said "ejaculation"

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Seriously, now that we're on the subject...I've seen Victorian-era porn that uses this execrable spelling.

Have you? Or is it fakey neo-Victorian porn? I never can remember.

:coughs with ladylike delicacy:

Re: huh huh huh, you said "ejaculation"

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Wow, no way! I'm not sure that I've ever read any Victorian or faux Victorian smut. And I'm having absolutely no luck Googling "victorian porn cum." :\

However, this discussion did (for some odd reason) make me think of Chaucer and his use of the word "queynte"--which led me to this curious use of old Geoffrey's work. (Page down.)

Re: huh huh huh, you said "ejaculation"

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, Chaucer. He's always there when you need him. 8-D

As for Victorian porn, the expert amongst us here is no doubt violetisblue.

[ssaiscps.livejournal.com]

cume?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Heh--I was just thinking that I forgot to add the "no 'E'" part. :)

[cynical5679.livejournal.com]

I know, ive never understood it

[jetjet.livejournal.com]

....and you WEREN'T expecting people to comment?

heh heh heh

[luftwaffe.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say, I love the three-letter spelling, and I refuse to spell it c-o-m-e when I mean c-u-m. I say the times are ahead of the dictionary on the issue of ejaculate.