[SPAM:##] Re: "come face"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Charlie Doyle wrote:

> "Cum face" is easier to search; it's the same, isn't it?

well, no; this is 'face with cum on it'.  but you knew that.

> It's interesting how "come" and "cum" got differentiated purely by
> spelling.

for lots of people (of whom i am one).  this gives you a verb with
the past form "came" (which is what i say), and a noun that clearly
looks like a noun, and (since it it has a non-standard spelling, an
ear spelling) looks "dirtier" than the noun "come".

meanwhile, from the noun "cum" there's a (zero-)derived verb "cum"
'ejaculate on, shoot cum on', apparently seen mostly in the past
participle: someone gets their face/ass/boobs/whatever cummed.

but the v-"come"/n-"cum" pattern isn't the only one around.  some
people have "cum" for both, giving a past form "cummed", as in

The other day i cummed for the first time. My male friends told me
that i should have only cummed a droplet, but i cummed and it ran all
down my penis. ...
www.malehealth.co.uk/userpage1.cfm?item_id=374

and some people have "come" for both.  no doubt there are people with
variation for one or both of these items, with the spellings
belonging to different stylistic levels (with "come" as a bit more
refined than "cum").  someone should investigate this.

for all i know, there are people who have "cum" only as the verb and
"come" only as the noun, though that looks bizarre to me.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)

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