Posted by Smartarse
on Tue 10 May 05, 8:34 PM to Smartarse's blog.
Gather round ladies and gents. Form yourself into two groups. On the one side I want all the Gorean, Leather Brigade, Old Guard, classically trained bods. Yes, you know who you are. You have rules and you know how to apply them. Yeah, stand over there, put some oil on that squeaky leather and stop those chains rattling.
Right, on my other hand I want all the grammarians, strict spellers, English teachers and college lecturers. Bloody hell, how many of you are there? Well, squash up a bit.
Okay, now then. I want to know how we resolve this: We're all members of the BDSM community right?
Who said no? What are you here for? No. This is nothing to do with driving. You're in the wrong place, mate.
As I was saying, we're all members of the BDSM community. Now you grammarians want us to use proper grammar. Is that right? Okay.
You leather boys want us to use traditional S&M conventions right? Okay.
So-oo. How do we resolve this business of using capitalized pro-nouns for dominants/masters and uncapitalised pro-nouns for submissives/slaves? For example:
i am Your slave
you are My slave
I am your Master
You are my Master
Doesn't really conform to the rules of grammar, does it?
Sharon and Debbie will hand out the cudgels and pitchforks. If there's not enough to go round you'll have to share, I'm sorry. It was very short notice. After I count three, begin fighting. Whoever is still on their feet at the end can have the pro-noun thing their way.
Yes, I'm on the grammarians side. No, there is only one machine gun. But if you find another one anywhere, there's lots of ammunition.
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This weblog is dedicated to a friend 
Edited Tue 10 May 05, 9:50 PM by Smartarse
| 10 May 05, 10:06 PM dean2001 7 yrs |
Are all these blogs about grammar some kind of desperate cry for School roleplay ?
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| 10 May 05, 10:09 PM Rhoobarb UK(FK), 12 yrs  |
Eeeeek, how can I split myself in two? Bits of me are on each side. I'm not really totally in either section. I'm not really one of the first lot but do have an interest in some of it. I'm not obsessive about grammar or spelling (as anyone who has ever read my weblogs would know!) but I do have little things that irk me horrendously. (People who add an 's' to the end of club names is one)
I'll just hover on the fence, as usual January 2001 to now, previous name: damsel | |
| 10 May 05, 10:23 PM attica UK, 9 yrs |
Enny won with incuphiant spells or grandmas shud jus be iknorred, thass obvus. Some people like the Y/ye, etc. They have there point in that: laissez faire attica pedantrix and proud of it too! | |
| 16 May 05, 12:42 PM Ice_on_fire UK(NE), 9 yrs |
Grins - I am a school teacher and I have to side with the correct grammar group.
I am enjoying reading your blogs by the way  "Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself." R.A. Heinlein |
