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justt13 -> Spelling help (4/27/2008 4:58:15 PM)

Is "consentual" a word?  Does is have a special meaning to BDSM that I'm unaware of?  I always thought it was spelled "consensual."  Sorry to ask such a dumb question, but I'm confused.



Level -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:02:52 PM)

Yes, it means "with consent".
 
In BDSM context, if you hurt someone, you generally want it to be "consentual". Otherwise, you may run into issues of morality, and the police.



KCherry -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:03:28 PM)

It's just a commonly misspelled word. [sm=sigh.gif]



littlewonder -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:18:16 PM)

You're correct in its spelling..."consensual"...it seems most people just don't know how to spell.



Real_Trouble -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:21:38 PM)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consensual

It is consensual.



Level -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:22:12 PM)

Hmm, it does seem that I was wrong, even though both spellings appear in the online Dictionary.com.



KCherry -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:23:03 PM)

It doesn't really seem like a big issue, a few spelling errors here and there is fine, it's only when messages are obviously not thought out or hard to understand that it becomes a problem. I think classifying people as 'not knowing how to spell' just because they mess up on a commonly misspelled word is a bit harsh. But that is just my .02$



quote:

ORIGINAL: littlewonder

You're correct in its spelling..."consensual"...it seems most people just don't know how to spell.



Level -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:23:20 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Real_Trouble

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consensual

It is consensual.



Okay, okay, stop rubbing it in. [:D]



angelikaJ -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:25:41 PM)

they are both correct:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consentual

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consensual

consensual is the preferred spelling



KatyLied -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:29:14 PM)

I found the word consentual on dictionary.com
At the site http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ all I got was:  Word not found in the Dictionary and Encyclopedia. Did you mean:
Concentual



ResidentSadist -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:44:27 PM)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Concentual

freedictionary says
Con`cen´tu`al




a.
1.
Possessing harmony; accordant.



DesFIP -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 5:48:18 PM)

It is odd that the spelling changes from the final t to a s when you change it's form. I think that's why it's so commonly spelled wrong, simply because we're accustomed to having a final t in consent. English is a very confusing language in so many ways.



Venatrix -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 6:14:46 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

they are both correct:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consentual

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consensual

consensual is the preferred spelling


Yes.  I just checked my three-inch-thick (you need to know that, 'cause size DOES matter) Unabridged Random House/Webster's Dictionary and it gives both; though I've rarely seen it spelled with a "t."

Edited to add: if someone would like to buy me the complete Oxford English Dictionary, I might be willing to reconsider my aversion to the concept of "tribute."



ResidentSadist -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 6:22:09 PM)

I think "consentual" feel pray to misunderstanding because Bill Gates doesn't believe in the word and it is not part of the default dictionary system for Windows or Word.  Only "consensual" comes in the Microsoft default vocabulary.



Poetryinpain -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 6:31:29 PM)

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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

I think "consentual" feel pray to misunderstanding because Bill Gates doesn't believe in the word and it is not part of the default dictionary system for Windows or Word.  Only "consensual" comes in the Microsoft default vocabulary.

*lol* When I type consentual in Word, it gets that wavy red line under it. Consensual is accepted. I've always spelled it consensual, but it may be because I've read a lot of British books. [shrug]

Yes, English is a very confusing language, and there are spellings, word usages, and even punctuation styles (see the Oxford comma in this sentence?) that have caused debate and even argument down the years. I have learned to shrug off things - what can't be cured must be endured.

pip, trying not to be the Grammar Nazi



expedio1 -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 6:52:53 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Venatrix
Edited to add: if someone would like to buy me the complete Oxford English Dictionary, I might be willing to reconsider my aversion to the concept of "tribute."

Add My name to that list, too.  I'd be willing to consider doing lots of things in exchange for the complete OED.

ETA that I prefer "consensual" because it literally means to think the same, as in "consensus".  It refers to complete agreement, not mere consent.  But that's just Me.  To each his own.



Alumbrado -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 7:03:45 PM)

And yet 'context' and 'event' get to keep their 'T'.[:D]



orfunboi -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 7:28:57 PM)

from dictionary.com

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
con·sen·tu·al [image]http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png[/image] 

Audio Help   /kənˈsɛn[image]http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png[/image]tʃu[image]http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png[/image]əl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kuh[image]http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png[/image]n-sen-choo-uh[image]http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png[/image]l] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective Law.



involving or carried out by mutual consent: a consentual divorce.




[Origin: consent + -al1, with -u- after consensual, or by assoc. with phonetically similar accentual, eventual, etc.[image]http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png[/image]]



Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.



Griswold -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 7:30:56 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Level

Hmm, it does seem that I was wrong...


(Chill...that was in 1973...you were young, and there was an oil embargo on at the time.  No one is going to hold you to anything on that).



Level -> RE: Spelling help (4/27/2008 7:42:06 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Griswold

quote:

ORIGINAL: Level

Hmm, it does seem that I was wrong...


(Chill...that was in 1973...you were young, and there was an oil embargo on at the time.  No one is going to hold you to anything on that).



[8D] True!



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