Come vs. Cum

[Boxlicker101]

At Ellora's Cave, editorial policy says that "come" is the verb and "cum" is the noun. I have no idea how they decided this.

For those who use "cum" as a verb though, I have one question: what's the past tense? cummed? came?

Me, I favor "gum" as the noun and "crumph" as the verb.

Or whatever happened to "splooge"?

I use "cum" as a verb and, I must say, I have some trouble with the past tense. I'm not going to say "cummed". Usually I get around it by saying things like "started to cum" or "finished cumming" or "climaxed".

 

[Nordic man]

it is amazing how same word will mean different things to people. McKenna, you will make beautiful babies when you decide to do so.

As Victorian as it sounds, I like the word "seed" for semen. It speaks to that primitive part of me that wants to be ploughed, sowed, and ultimately procreate.

 

[Elenia26]

I hate the word "cum". Enough to turn me off a story. And this: "cuuuuuuuuuuuuuming" or anything like "ooooooooooh" or "aaaaaaaaaaaaah" will make me click back right away.

Also bad dialogue. People really need to know how to write dialogue. By no means is mine perfect but at least I make an attempt to follow the rules. Just because you write erotica is no excuse for sloppy work.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I use "cum" as a verb and, I must say, I have some trouble with the past tense. I'm not going to say "cummed". Usually I get around it by saying things like "started to cum" or "finished cumming" or "climaxed".

Yeah, because if you use "came" it begs the question of why you'd use "cum" in the first place.

Honestly, you've never heard a newly-deflowered lady say; "I think I cummed."

 

[tickledkitty]

Examples;

"The girls filed into the whorehouse parlor, all dressed in cumly lingerie."

"She's a cummer, that one!"

"Summer is a cuming in, luhd sing Cuckoo..."

I you.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I hate the word "cum". Enough to turn me off a story. And this: "cuuuuuuuuuuuuuming" or anything like "ooooooooooh" or "aaaaaaaaaaaaah" will make me click back right away.

Also bad dialogue. People really need to know how to write dialogue. By no means is mine perfect but at least I make an attempt to follow the rules. Just because you write erotica is no excuse for sloppy work.

I agree about dialogue, although mine isn't even close to perfect. What do you mean by "follow the rules"? Dialogue is often ungrammatical because that's the way people talk. If a character is an English teacher or an author, I will usually try to have that person use proper grammar. With most people, though, I don't. Sometimes, I even have characters saying things like "gonna" or "gotta" or "coulda", etc.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I agree about dialogue, although mine isn't even close to perfect. What do you mean by "follow the rules"? Dialogue is often ungrammatical because that's the way people talk. If a character is an English teacher or an author, I will usually try to have that person use proper grammar. With most people, though, I don't. Sometimes, I even have characters saying things like "gonna" or "gotta" or "coulda", etc.

In fact, an English teacher who is so turned on that she loses her grip on her grammar-- that's hot!

 

[Boxlicker101]

In fact, an English teacher who is so turned on that she loses her grip on her grammar-- that's hot!

Sometimes she'll be saying like: "Oh, God! Fuck me good! Make me cum!" Somehow, I can't bring myself to having somebody, even a grammarian, saying "Fuck me well!"

 

[Stella_Omega]

Sometimes she'll be saying like: "Oh, God! Fuck me good! Make me cum!" Somehow, I can't bring myself to having somebody, even a grammarian, saying "Fuck me well!"

He'd be saying; "Well, what?"

 

[Elenia26]

I agree about dialogue, although mine isn't even close to perfect. What do you mean by "follow the rules"? Dialogue is often ungrammatical because that's the way people talk. If a character is an English teacher or an author, I will usually try to have that person use proper grammar. With most people, though, I don't. Sometimes, I even have characters saying things like "gonna" or "gotta" or "coulda", etc.

No, I don't have a problem with that at all! I mean this kind of crap:

Either this:

And she said, oh you're so hot, and he said, I love you.

Or this:

"Wow, you're so hot" she said, and he said "I love you".

When it should be like this:

"Wow, you're so hot," she said.

"I love you," he responded.

Now. You can't always follow perfectly the rules of conversation, which are a new paragraph each time a new person speaks. HOWEVER it should be completely clear who is speaking and I hate reading stories where I have to either try to figure it out or am not even sure when the dialogue is happening.

I don't have a problem with "gonna" or anything although I generally try not to use it. But that doesn't take you out of the story like weird dialogue does!

 

[Elenia26]

Sometimes she'll be saying like: "Oh, God! Fuck me good! Make me cum!" Somehow, I can't bring myself to having somebody, even a grammarian, saying "Fuck me well!"

See, I wouldn't use that. I'd say "Fuck me hard" and avoid the whole issue!

 

[Stella_Omega]

No, I don't have a problem with that at all! I mean this kind of crap:

Either this:

And she said, oh you're so hot, and he said, I love you.

Or this:

"Wow, you're so hot" she said, and he said "I love you".

When it should be like this:

"Wow, you're so hot," she said.

"I love you," he responded.

Now. You can't always follow perfectly the rules of conversation, which are a new paragraph each time a new person speaks. HOWEVER it should be completely clear who is speaking and I hate reading stories where I have to either try to figure it out or am not even sure when the dialogue is happening.

I don't have a problem with "gonna" or anything although I generally try not to use it. But that doesn't take you out of the story like weird dialogue does!

Actually, I like both of your first examples very much-- but the author would have to be consistent all the way through. But both examples would catch my (jaded, overly-intellectual) eye, and make me read further.

The first example, especially, is like a line of poetry. It suggests that the two statements are closely linked, that the difference between her lust and his tenderness might be important to the story. It would be a fantastic first line, come to think of it. The conflict in one sentence.



(pretty coherent for someone who is staring at elenia's av, ain't I? )

 

[Boxlicker101]

No, I don't have a problem with that at all! I mean this kind of crap:

Either this:

And she said, oh you're so hot, and he said, I love you.

Or this:

"Wow, you're so hot" she said, and he said "I love you".

When it should be like this:

"Wow, you're so hot," she said.

"I love you," he responded.

Now. You can't always follow perfectly the rules of conversation, which are a new paragraph each time a new person speaks. HOWEVER it should be completely clear who is speaking and I hate reading stories where I have to either try to figure it out or am not even sure when the dialogue is happening.

I don't have a problem with "gonna" or anything although I generally try not to use it. But that doesn't take you out of the story like weird dialogue does!

Actually, those examples, if they are consistent throughout the story, should cause the story to be rejected. Management does not expect perfection, but something as far off as that should be bounced back to the writer.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Actually, those examples, if they are consistent throughout the story, should cause the story to be rejected. Management does not expect perfection, but something as far off as that should be bounced back to the writer.

Boo. Brautigan, Vonnegut, Nabokov and me are so hurt now.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Boo. Brautigan, Vonnegut, Nabokov and me are so hurt now.

The first example would be alright if it was part of the dialogue, and somebody was describing a conversation. The second one is just wrong. With every new speaker, a new paragraph must start. Perhaps a famous author can get away with breaking this rule and others, but it's still not right.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I used to use "cum"... I just have a nostalgic fondness for it from reading 70's erotica where everyone was cummmmmmmmmming...

But since becoming epubbed, I've had the habit drummed out of me. Now it's the proper "come" for the verb and "cum" for the noun. *sigh*

 

[Stella_Omega]

The first example would be alright if it was part of the dialogue, and somebody was describing a conversation. The second one is just wrong. With every new speaker, a new paragraph must start. Perhaps a famous author can get away with breaking this rule and others, but it's still not right.

YOu're right, of course.

The first example would be a narrator talking to the reader. If you did it that way, you could break a lot of rules, because you'd be speaking in your narrator's vernacular the whole way through... Not an easy trick!