Spelling the other word for 'orgasm'

In My Humble Opinion
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It seems to be missing from The New York Times’ Manual of Style and Usage as well. Tsk tsk.

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The verb is come. I have never used the noun form, but I would certainly never call it “come” or “cum.”

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Exactly, to use slang like that, just demeans and cheapens something that’s just such an awesome experience (In the original meaning of the word, not the Valley Girl meaning).

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I totally agree!

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Cum is good. It makes me feel very special in a ‘sneaking a peak at porn when I was kid’ kind of way.

Cumming is NOT good.

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“Come”, IMO. “Cum” is far too porn.

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But “cummed” is dirty AND grammatically askew, so it’s, you know, twice as good!

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Checks 'Journalism Style Guide
Hey! It’s not mentioned there either! I was told this contained everything I could possibly need to know as a journalist!

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Heh, I agree.
At my old job we dealt with about 500 different magazines, and each was coded in the computer system by the first 5 letters in the name, so often in speaking we would refer to the mag by its shortened code. This worked fine with “Chick” for Chickadee, “Paren” for Parenting Magazine, “Marth” for Martha Stewart Living, and “Cabin” for Cabin Life. But while “Count” looked fine, when you realized that it was short for Country Living the pronunciation became somewhat questionable.

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“Come” sounds classier…plus, “Cum” is more often used in place of “Semen.”

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::opens thread wondering how the hell anyone could fail to know how to spell “climax”::

Ewww.

I hate that whole “let’s make sex sound like sewage” 5th-grader vocabulary thing.

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I’m disappointed in all of you. This should have devolved into a “euphemism for ejaculate” thread quite some time ago. For shame.

Baby Batter

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To quote the great Dan Savage (Savage Love, 1998):

There now. Was it good for you too?

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I’ve never been so happy. :stuck_out_tongue:

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But we keep tripping our nutsak into a frenzy of dik play!

Er.

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This is not a great idea for a sig.

I REPEAT

This is not a great idea for a sig.

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You’re just saying that because you want it for your own sig! :smiley:

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OED entry for “come”

  1. [f. COME v.] Semen ejaculated at sexual climax, esp. spilt ejaculate. Also (rarely), fluid secreted by the vagina during sexual play.

“cum” is obscure apparently: obs. form of COME v., pa. pple., n.2

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It it just me, or does anyone else think of the Latin word for “with” when they see “cum”, and pronounce it “koom”?

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Heh…Spinnwebe.