eye-dialect

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:46 AM -0500 2/23/01, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>
>There's also "cum", as used in pornography. I suppose this shows evolution
>into a separate word, and perhaps some don't recognize it as "come" any
>more.

For one thing, it has a different past tense inflection:  cum - cummed.

>I don't like eye-dialect myself: it's usually a "cheap" way to stigmatize a
>fictional character, and an insult to the reader IMHO.
>
>I do like wimmen and likker, though.
>
Me too, but I think we're getting off thread here...

larry