Editing Question: "Cum" and "Came"

[AsylumSeeker]

Okay, I'm editing again and have arrived at another question.

PERSONALLY, I'm fine (and rather like) the expression "cum". But I see writers using "came" as a past tense. Personally I don't go for this as "came" is a valid word in its own right with a much different meaning. When I see "came" I suggest "climaxed" or "reached orgasm", as examples.

However I was wondering what the common thought on this is. I'd hate to preach one thing and then find out my jaded ideas go against the larger crowd.

Ideas anyone?

 

[DracheDD]

Personal opinion?
I'm fine with using it as a past tense. Just makes sense to me if we're going to use "cum" as a verb.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Okay, so it's me. That's why I make "suggestions" and let the writer decide in the end.

Thanks DD

 

[sr71plt]

This is discussed extensively in a recent AH thread. Come is probably still more accepted in erotica dictionary lists than cum is, and came is given as the past tense for both of them in most of these dictionaries. I think it would take some time for the natural alternative ("cumed") to catch on.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Thanks SR. I'll "stick" by my convictions and writers can do what they want with my suggestions. But I sincerely apprecaite the input.

 

[Otto26]

I'll note that if I'm using the term in dialog, then it's fine. If I'm using it narrative, not so much.

 

[palisa]

I think it would take some time for the natural alternative ("cumed") to catch on.

I agree, but if it did ever catch on we could quarrel about how it should be spelled. I'd vote for "cummed."

Even though the spelling "rule" has a great number of exceptions, the "u" should be long before a single consonant -- "kyewmed" or "koomed."

 

[sr71plt]

I agree, but if it did ever catch on we could quarrel about how it should be spelled. I'd vote for "cummed."

Even though the spelling "rule" has a great number of exceptions, the "u" should be long before a single consonant -- "kyewmed" or "koomed."

I agree that it probably would be "cummed."

 

[Boxlicker101]

I usually get around it by saying "climaxed" or "started cumming" or "finished cumming" or similar forms. I don't like to say "came" and "cummed" just don't sound right.

I'm not sure why. Words lke gummed, and slummed and bummed and hummed and summed are perfectly okay.

Maybe "cam". After all, run and ran. Cum and cam. Of course, Spellcheck would have a hissy fit.

 

[sr71plt]

I usually get around it by saying "climaxed" or "started cumming" or "finished cumming" or similar forms. I don't like to say "came" and "cummed" just don't sound right.

I'm not sure why. Words lke gummed, and slummed and bummed and hummed and summed are perfectly okay.

Maybe "cam". After all, run and ran. Cum and cam. Of course, Spellcheck would have a hissy fit.

I always find another wording too--for the same reason.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... Maybe "cam". After all, run and ran. Cum and cam. Of course, Spellcheck would have a hissy fit.

Any half-way decent spell check would be happy with "cam". It would assume you intended the noun. A really good grammar checker might complain that you didn't have a verb in the sentence: "He cam in buckets full" but you could fool it by changing that to: "He cam in tanker loads", which a machine would think meant "He loads a cam in the tanker"!!!!

 

[palisa]

My head's beginning to hurt!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Any half-way decent spell check would be happy with "cam". It would assume you intended the noun. A really good grammar checker might complain that you didn't have a verb in the sentence: "He cam in buckets full" but you could fool it by changing that to: "He cam in tanker loads", which a machine would think meant "He loads a cam in the tanker"!!!!

Not actually the spelling checker, but the grammar part. It would say it was a fragment. I usually ignore it, because my grammar is better than its grammar, but sometimes I make a mistake that I want to correct.

 

[DracheDD]

....because my grammar is better than its grammar...

Sometimes I find myself wondering who wrote the software for those damn grammer checkers. Seems to check at about an 8th grade level most of the time.

Maybe I just need a better one, I don't know, but there are a lot of times that it marks something that isn't wrong.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

I'm with DD

I allow the "angry green line" of Word punctuation checker to trump my, or other's, written words. But at times the attempt to appease that God that is Microsoft is ridiculous. So I'm not opposed to leaving one-word islands of underlines out there. In fact, I almost claim a little pleasure from the defiance.

 

[lushlucid]

I came so hard just has a better ring to it than "my orgasm was splendid" i think

 

[AsylumSeeker]

I'm Up For The Challenge

The tingling pressure in his balls was soon overwhelming. Sweat dripped from his pores as all muscles tensed. His body shook in uncontrollable tremors as the semen began to rise. Soon the pressure was too much. As the sensitized head was teased by her canal he ejaculated, squirting powerful streams of cum into her body.

"Came" never "came" to mind, LOL.

 

[lushlucid]

The tingling pressure in his balls was soon overwhelming. Sweat dripped from his pores as all muscles tensed. His body shook in uncontrollable tremors as the semen began to rise. Soon the pressure was too much. As the sensitized head was teased by her canal he ejaculated, squirting powerful streams of cum into her body.

"Came" never "came" to mind, LOL.

i didn't like that at all sorry

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Okay, I'm fine with that. Everyone has their own likes and dislikes, and yours have been clearly stated.

 

[lushlucid]

yep, write what you want to write and read what you want to read

 

[Boxlicker101]

Sometimes I find myself wondering who wrote the software for those damn grammer checkers. Seems to check at about an 8th grade level most of the time.

Maybe I just need a better one, I don't know, but there are a lot of times that it marks something that isn't wrong.

A lot of times, it's just plain WRONG. If I say something like: "My uncle and his oldest son, John, were waiting", It will say I am wrong and should say "John was waiting. It tells me I have a fragment and I look and it is a proper sentence with a subject and predicate. Sometimes I start a sentence with a gerundial phrase, and it can't handle that.

Once in a while, I will write something, come back anedit it, and leave something in that is ungrammatical. When it points these errors out, I change them. This is the only reason I even leave it activated.

 

[sr71plt]

A lot of times, it's just plain WRONG. If I say something like: "My uncle and his oldest son, John, were waiting", It will say I am wrong and should say "John was waiting. It tells me I have a fragment and I look and it is a proper sentence with a subject and predicate. Sometimes I start a sentence with a gerundial phrase, and it can't handle that.

Once in a while, I will write something, come back anedit it, and leave something in that is ungrammatical. When it points these errors out, I change them. This is the only reason I even leave it activated.

I've never had trouble with the Word grammar program. I think your problem with it is that you activate it. I never have.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

It's a Tool, But Far From Perfect

A lot of times, it's just plain WRONG. If I say something like: "My uncle and his oldest son, John, were waiting", It will say I am wrong and should say "John was waiting. It tells me I have a fragment and I look and it is a proper sentence with a subject and predicate. Sometimes I start a sentence with a gerundial phrase, and it can't handle that.

Once in a while, I will write something, come back anedit it, and leave something in that is ungrammatical. When it points these errors out, I change them. This is the only reason I even leave it activated.

I do use the grammar checker in Word. It can be helpful to point out grammar errors that I may otherwise miss, but as previously stated, it's far from perfect. Rely on it selectively, as I have learned to. Or in SR's case just turn the feature off.

DO NOT SPEND YOUR PRECIOUS TIME TRYING TO MAKE THAT ANNOYING GREEN LINE GO AWAY. I've seen instances where I've been editing and know that "was" is correct but the suggestion from Word was to change it to "were". And then on a whim I made the change, then it wanted me to change it back to "was", and found myself caught up in a terminal loop.

So use it, but don't necessarily allow it to take over your writing. That's my best advice.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I do use the grammar checker in Word. It can be helpful to point out grammar errors that I may otherwise miss, but as previously stated, it's far from perfect. Rely on it selectively, as I have learned to. Or in SR's case just turn the feature off.

DO NOT SPEND YOUR PRECIOUS TIME TRYING TO MAKE THAT ANNOYING GREEN LINE GO AWAY. I've seen instances where I've been editing and know that "was" is correct but the suggestion from Word was to change it to "were". And then on a whim I made the change, then it wanted me to change it back to "was", and found myself caught up in a terminal loop.

So use it, but don't necessarily allow it to take over your writing. That's my best advice.

Abut 98% of the time I'm right, or I am deliberately being ungrammatical, such is in dialogue. Still, that 2% of the time makes it worthwhile leaving it on. I really hate to make grammatical or spelling errors in the narration. In my first person stories, my persona is a free-lance writer, and such a person would be careful about what he says. In my third person stories, I am supposed to be all-seeing, all-wise, and I also have to be correct in other ways.

 

[kimbalee]

oh my dog!

Me too. I always think the reader is thinking, "Hey, dumbass, I'm tryin' to read here... how 'bout helpin' me out by doin' your job?" I try, but it inevitably slides through the spellcheck as the correct spelling of a word I had no intention of using, but mistakenly typed in its place. ex; "Oh my dog!" lol