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[InsatiableMe]

Which is the proper way to convey this sentence?



And that’s when mild mannered Steve showed me his Sadistic streak.

Or...

And that’s when mild mannered Steve showed me his Sadist's streak.

Or even...

And that’s when mild mannered Steve showed me his Sadist streak.

 

[Seattle Zack]

They're all wrong.

Compound adjectives are usually hyphenated when they modify a noun and left as separate words when they are really compound noun adjuncts modifying another noun.

Sadist is not an adjective, nor a proper noun.

Rarely should a sentence be started with a conjunction, although that's more a matter of style than anything else nowadays.

Then mild-mannered Steve showed me his sadistic streak.

Still a rather boring sentence though.

P.S. You might check down in the BDSM Forum, ... T/they can A/advise you on the N/nomenclature that M/makes them feel the most S/special.

 

[LorriLove]

hiya

job to say honey but i'd write:

and that's when it became clear steve had a very sadistic streak. to keep it simple. but as seattle said, as part of a sentence, not a complete sentence on it's own.

 

[snooper]

... Sadist is not an adjective, nor a proper noun. ...

According to the OED it is used as an adjective to replace sadistic in such phrases as "sadist tendencies". The capitalisation is presumably a homage to Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte (known as Marquis) de Sade (1740–1814), the French novelist and pornographer, and as such is perfectly acceptable (cf Shakespearean).

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I don't know what the dictionarys says, and I don't really care, because dictionaries are usually a good 5-10 years behind the times and 'sadistic' has been used as an adjective in popular speech for as far back as I can remember, right along with masochistic and lunatic. Assuming that this passage isn't part of your admissions essay to Harvard or Yale and that your narrator is speaking in the vernacular, I would say "sadistic streak" without capitalization.

I have no problem with starting a sentence with a conjunction myself, especially when the story's told in the vernacular. To me, it's a kind of prissy, school marmish rule, like not ending a sentence with a preposition. I'd worry about it if I were writing some formal report, but in fiction, especially first person fiction, I do it all the time. But then, that's just me.

---dr.M.

 

[whispering_surrender]

I have no problem with starting a sentence with a conjunction myself, especially when the story's told in the vernacular. To me, it's a kind of prissy, school marmish rule, like not ending a sentence with a preposition. I'd worry about it if I were writing some formal report, but in fiction, especially first person fiction, I do it all the time. But then, that's just me.

Besides, on the right story, dangling participles are kinda sexy.....*growl*

Whisp

 

[English Lady]

I think the first one looks right to me...now hell I can't give you any kind of technical argument about it but it reads right to me..if that helps you at all*L*

 

[LorriLove]

giggle

Besides, on the right story, dangling participles are kinda sexy.....*growl*

Whisp

i love it when they dangle whisp and you can feel them bashing against your bum

 

[LorriLove]

yep

According to the OED it is used as an adjective to replace sadistic in such phrases as "sadist tendencies". The capitalisation is presumably a homage to Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte (known as Marquis) de Sade (1740–1814), the French novelist and pornographer, and as such is perfectly acceptable (cf Shakespearean).

yep the oed quotes a load of stuff as proper english and proper words that the purists frown on. hell 'fuckmother's' in it now. as well as multitudes of other slang words.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I don't know what the dictionarys says, and I don't really care, because dictionaries are usually a good 5-10 years behind the times and 'sadistic' has been used as an adjective in popular speech for as far back as I can remember, right along with masochistic and lunatic. Assuming that this passage isn't part of your admissions essay to Harvard or Yale and that your narrator is speaking in the vernacular, I would say "sadistic streak" without capitalization.

I have no problem with starting a sentence with a conjunction myself, especially when the story's told in the vernacular. To me, it's a kind of prissy, school marmish rule, like not ending a sentence with a preposition. I'd worry about it if I were writing some formal report, but in fiction, especially first person fiction, I do it all the time. But then, that's just me.

---dr.M.

I'm with you on the conjunction thing, Doc. I even start paragraphs with conjunctions, as part of a narrative if the new para. spins off the previous one.

"Sadistic" is a perfectly good adjective, but "sadist" is a noun, and the possessive form should not be used in this way.


Also, as Zack said, the sentence is a rather dull one, and "mild mannered" should have been hyphenated, if you don't mind using a cliche.

 

[InsatiableMe]

According to the OED it is used as an adjective to replace sadistic in such phrases as "sadist tendencies". The capitalisation is presumably a homage to Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte (known as Marquis) de Sade (1740–1814), the French novelist and pornographer, and as such is perfectly acceptable (cf Shakespearean).

Thank You.

Personally, I also capitalize all things relating to a Dominant when writing.

 

[Guest]

P.S. You might check down in the BDSM Forum, ... T/they can A/advise you on the N/nomenclature that M/makes them feel the most S/special.

i love it when they dangle whisp and you can feel them bashing against your bum

Love that, and you, Lorri

 

[InsatiableMe]

I have no problem with starting a sentence with a conjunction myself, especially when the story's told in the vernacular. To me, it's a kind of prissy, school marmish rule, like not ending a sentence with a preposition. I'd worry about it if I were writing some formal report, but in fiction, especially first person fiction, I do it all the time. But then, that's just me.

---dr.M.

And that is what this story is, first person. When I think of first person, I think of the narrator talking to someone. So, my first person takes on a lot of characteristics of chatting.

 

[InsatiableMe]

I think the first one looks right to me...now hell I can't give you any kind of technical argument about it but it reads right to me..if that helps you at all*L*

Thank you. It does.

 

[InsatiableMe]

Also, as Zack said, the sentence is a rather dull one, and "mild mannered" should have been hyphenated, if you don't mind using a cliche.

Well, that is one sentence in a "whole" paragraph in a "whole" story. I didn't post the whole story here for a reason.

And I have now corrected my error of the missing hyphen.

 

[raphy]

Re: giggle

i love it when they dangle whisp and you can feel them bashing against your bum

You're so shameless, Lorri!

I love it

 

[raphy]

Rarely should a sentence be started with a conjunction, although that's more a matter of style than anything else nowadays.

I do that all the time!

Go me!

 

[LorriLove]

Re: Re: giggle

hay raphy, aren't i just i love it too

 

[InsatiableMe]

yep the oed quotes a load of stuff as proper english and proper words that the purists frown on. hell 'fuckmother's' in it now.

Is fuckmother's similar to motherfucker? I've never heard the first before.


(And on anothe note, as for the "dangling things", I prefer to have them hit my clit like they did today!)

 

[Omni]

P.S. You might check down in the BDSM Forum, ... T/they can A/advise you on the N/nomenclature that M/makes them feel the most S/special.

More on this. Hahahaaa


Omni

 

[LorriLove]

hiya

Is fuckmother's similar to motherfucker? I've never heard the first before.


(And on anothe note, as for the "dangling things", I prefer to have them hit my clit like they did today!)

same but different, giggle, motherfucker is only used by black guys and gals over here, fuckmother is the uk equivalent used by we white types

(the guy i'm on about has balls like a bull, they dangle far too low to hit your clit, unless he had his dick in your navel, giggle, or you had a six inch clit ) lucky tart getting it today

 

[InsatiableMe]

Well, I've never taken the time to measure how low men's balls dangle when I'm with them, but they've always hit my clit during doggie style.

 

[pop_54]

Re: Re: Re: giggle

hay raphy, aren't i just i love it too

Trust you Lorri, you dirty tart

Hey Raphy, I meant to say before, loved the story it made good Christmas reading


Hello insatiable, well did you get your answer from all these lunies?

I get told off for writing in my own style as well, like the good doctor I'm not a firm believer that English must be written or spoken by the book. Whatever the fuck that book is.

There's a lot of famous authors and scriptwriters that didn't go by the book and have made it big time. You will however get hammered here if you don't go by the book and try to submit.

pops.........

 

[InsatiableMe]

Hello insatiable, well did you get your answer from all these lunies?

For the most part. Thank you.

 

[Seattle Zack]

To me, it's a kind of prissy, school marmish rule, like not ending a sentence with a preposition.

Not to knock a schoolmarm (insert own joke here) but I have no problem with starting a sentence with a conjunction either, as long as it adds something to the writing. But, as S&W always say, omit needless words. Rarely is "And then ..." better than "Then...." It all depends on the construction, of course, but I see many Lit stories that have endless "And ... And ... And ..."

And it annoys me.

Personally, I also capitalize all things relating to a Dominant when writing.

Um .... never mind.