A couple of days ago, an old friend* of mine, Heidi, posted a PSA for her readers on her blog, The Happy Freelancer. The post, Walking Away from a Potential Client, had me reminiscing in a comment about an extremely rude potential client. I don’t know whether the universe was bent on biting me on the posterior and taking out a chunk, but I had a run in yesterday with a client over a short 350 word article. Continue reading
Tag Archives: language
Gender Specific Possessive Pronouns Need to Make a Comeback
I am working on a writing project at the moment and I have come to the conclusion, once again, that I am going to make every effort possible to try to move back into using “his”, “hers”, and “its”, instead of “their” to encompass all three. That’s my goal, anyhow. I know I have a few friends who are feminists who may get upset by this. I know a couple of other women who will be livid because they were of the group who worked toward gender-neutral language. Now, I can sort of understand the issue, but as someone who works as a writer, albeit sporadically, I don’t have to like it. Continue reading
The Emergence of Asshat
This is going to be a short blog post, but I’m watching Prime Suspect and one of the detectives used the word “asshat”. Now, we’ve been using the word asshat for years now online. I believe the first time I ever saw it in chat was back in 1999. I’d never heard anyone say it out loud. For at least five years now, the word has been commonly used in speech by a lot of people. It is clearly interchangeable with “asshole”. Continue reading
Pardonnez Moi Pour Mon Erreur…
Bonjour!
OK, good morning. I had a revelation whilst nearly asleep last night about the site’s tag line. It said, “c’est la vie, mon amis.” (Side note – the spell checker reads “c’est la vie” and doesn’t try to tell me it’s wrong, even though it’s French, but it tells me “mon amis” isn’t right. Just because it’s somewhat of a cliche, does not mean it’s English!) Continue reading
Random Capitalization, Titling, and Made up Words
This is probably going to annoy a bunch of people, especially those who’s “experience” with BDSM is constrained to online dealings and just about nothing else, but I would like to know if anyone has any idea who started the “I/i”, “H/him”, “S/she” nonsense. I think my study of language has me constantly getting annoyed every single time I see this. Continue reading
BDSM and “Slavery” – Why it Isn’t the Same as Traditional Slavery
The idea of a sexual slave generally brings the idea of people being bought and sold for menial tasks to the minds of most people outside the community. Thoughts of “subhumans” abound, thoughts of any sort of non-consensual use, thoughts of inhumane treatment, and so on. Continue reading