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Focus50 -> RE: Body modification and D/s or M/s (8/26/2007 3:48:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Bobkgin
I think I am sufficiently acquainted with the English language to recognize a generic statement when I see one.
There are better ways of identifying specific "doms or dommes", especially when he is talking about "your ex dom".
It's a predictive generalized statement that includes all other doms and dommes.
I know his experience is not so broad as to include me, and I am quite certain there are many others who've been misrepresented in that statement.
Such statements are often included to add weight to a claim. But they are over-reaching, and thus weakened by such efforts.
I'd not have disagreed with him had he limited himself to "some doms and dommes", as I am sure such a statement is true.
But such a broad brush as he has used does not accurately portray reality.
And yet I never felt his statement included me! Even though it literally could, actually, because I have made subs *remove* piercings because I do find them "tacky", to put it mildly.... Of course, LATEXBABY65 didn't and couldn't know that.
In a literal sense, I agree you are correct about the generalisation but is that really how a discerning adult conducts themselves amongst strangers? You gonna jump on everyone who omits a suffix here or a *pronoun there (* my own generalisation) etc, rather than simply try to understand their point? Because that's what communication really is, not whether someone is or isn't so good at grammar or *spelling etc or even that they are but a bit loose with it....
Btw, I am saying all this in good nature and don't mean offense. And I'm wondering; you're not a school teacher or lawyer or Frasier/Niles or something? lol
Be well,
Focus.
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