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I know the plural of areola is areolæ, but it doesn't sound very erotic. Consider for instance this sentence:

"Looking down, she noticed that the top of her areolæ were showing."

It just doesn't sound very sexy. The singular form isn't as bad in my ears, but still not perfect. Any ideas of what to use instead?
 
Areolae is erotic to some of us, but we're fine with areolas as well. My problem is finding an erotic (or even popular) term for those delightful little bumps on aroused areolae, "Tubercles of Montgomery" doesn't do it, not even for us science guys.
 
RejectReality said:
Areolas is also listed as an accepted alternate in almost every dictionary.
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And thank goodness for that. I've used computers since the days of DOS and my first AT clone with two 5-1/4 floppys and no hard drive.

But I still don't know how to make he connected back to back "ae". It just doesn't come up very often.

Speaking of not often used letters, I wish English hadn't gotten rid of the old "thorn" from the old old olden days. It was a letter for the "th" sound without having to use two letters. Neat.
 
Tio_Narratore said:
Areolae is erotic to some of us, but we're fine with areolas as well. My problem is finding an erotic (or even popular) term for those delightful little bumps on aroused areolae, "Tubercles of Montgomery" doesn't do it, not even for us science guys.
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It's better than "sebaceous lubricating glands".
"Montgomery's Tubercles" always did it for me.
 
49greg said:
And thank goodness for that. I've used computers since the days of DOS and my first AT clone with two 5-1/4 floppys and no hard drive.

But I still don't know how to make he connected back to back "ae". It just doesn't come up very often.

Speaking of not often used letters, I wish English hadn't gotten rid of the old "thorn" from the old old olden days. It was a letter for the "th" sound without having to use two letters. Neat.
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It's called a "digraph" or a e ligature. Try alt145 for lower case, alt146 for upper.
 
Tio_Narratore said:
It's called a "digraph" or a e ligature. Try alt145 for lower case, alt146 for upper.
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Doesn't work for me, and I'm sure you gave the right instructions, but I can't make it work. And it's a small thing so I'll keep using the modern version.

Thanks though.
 
49greg said:
Doesn't work for me, and I'm sure you gave the right instructions, but I can't make it work. And it's a small thing so I'll keep using the modern version.

Thanks though.
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æ Æ

Works for me.

Try Alt0230 for lower and Alt0198 for upper.
 
"Þat Moþerfucker!" just doesn't look right. It's a thorny problem.
 
49greg said:
But I still don't know how to make he connected back to back "ae". It just doesn't come up very often.
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If all else fails, find somebody else who's already done it and copy and paste from them :)

Speaking of not often used letters, I wish English hadn't gotten rid of the old "thorn" from the old old olden days. It was a letter for the "th" sound without having to use two letters. Neat.
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Commonly mistaken for a 'y' these days, hence "Ye Olde Shoppe".

Iceland has the thorn and another letter with a very similar sound too (at least to my ears). Just to be confusing.
 
Bramblethorn said:
If all else fails, find somebody else who's already done it and copy and paste from them :)
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Windoze junkies can just pull up the Character Map app.

Commonly mistaken for a 'y' these days, hence "Ye Olde Shoppe".
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Hmm, the modern thorn doesn't look very Y-ish.

Iceland has the thorn and another letter with a very similar sound too (at least to my ears). Just to be confusing.
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I illustrated the first above. THORN: Þ thorn: þ -- the other is ETH: Ð eth: ð -- have fun. Notice that lowercase thorn is larger than uppercase THORN. Oh, those Icelanders! From thorn to eth to Bjork. When will they ever stop?
 
Bramblethorn said:
If all else fails, find somebody else who's already done it and copy and paste from them :)
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Or bring up your word processing system, pull down the "insert symbol," find what you're looking for, click on it, and then cut and paste it into the forum post. I admit that's what I do rather than trying to remember what key stroke goes with what rarely used character.
 
Hypoxia said:
Addenda: Everything you wanted to know about thorn
and also: Everything you wanted to know about eth
ObTopic: Everything you wanted to know about aesc (Æ)

I find digraphs æsthetically displeasing. I much prefer compact ligatures which help reduce character counts. I blame ASCII typography for impoverishing our language. Let's kill somebody.
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Interesting stuff. I enjoyed the wiki articles. Oddly just a few months ago I was talking to a woman from Iceland, who used to work in the same office my wife does. Somehow we got to talking about the thorn and how it's still in their alphabet. Funny how things like that happen, talk about it, and a few weeks later see it somewhere completely unrelated.

Back on the ae subject, my laptop keyboard just doesn't work for those letters, even when using the combinations from the wiki articles. Don't know if it was just made that way or all the cat and dog hairs that have worked their way under it have blocked things lol. At least my word processor has an insert symbols menu that was mentioned earlier.
 
49greg said:
Interesting stuff. I enjoyed the wiki articles. Oddly just a few months ago I was talking to a woman from Iceland, who used to work in the same office my wife does. Somehow we got to talking about the thorn and how it's still in their alphabet. Funny how things like that happen, talk about it, and a few weeks later see it somewhere completely unrelated.

Back on the ae subject, my laptop keyboard just doesn't work for those letters, even when using the combinations from the wiki articles. Don't know if it was just made that way or all the cat and dog hairs that have worked their way under it have blocked things lol. At least my word processor has an insert symbols menu that was mentioned earlier.
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Try turning the number lock off.
 
Footnote: Some of us constantly use ligatures or at least one of them. The ampersand & joins 'e' and 't', the Latin et, and. I'd like to see more punctuation ligatures too. My favorite joins '!' and '?' into the interrobang [size=+1]‽[/size] -- lovely bit, wot?

We need to reintroduce Greek / Cyrillic characters into our writing. Some useful sounds there like theta (the root of thorn), psi, zeta (for dz), etc. But I'm out of time now. More later.
 
HandsInTheDark said:
All hail the interrobang. No other punctuation quite captures sex as well as it does.
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But what does it convey to a reader? How many readers would have a clue what you were trying to convey? In decades of editing, I've never heard of it before.
 
This is my favorite thread in the AH right now. So informative!

My MIL is Norwegian and has tried to teach me some of the language. The nuances of vowel sounds with all of those extra vowels where the letters are stuck together? I'm no too smart for that.
 
When I first starting writing porn stories, I used "areola" but I gave it up as a term that isn't used. What is the areola, I call the "nipple" and what is the nipple, I call the "nub".
 
I've used areola, but I thought the plural was also areola. I had no idea the plural was one of those letters stuck together words.
 
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