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Evility -> RE: Eureka! (5/18/2008 9:01:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: gypsygrl
I knew it!
It's always bugged me that the word "submissive" is used as a noun. It's not a noun. It's an adjective. I've used it as a noun as a matter of convenience, but it still bugs me and I try to use alternatives such as s-type to avoid grammatical dissonance.
So, imagine my joy when I was composing a cmail and I used the plural form of 'submissive'--submissives--and it came up with the red line underneath it. It was misspelled. And, there is no option to spell it right. Why? Because there is no correct way to pluralize (?) the word submissive. Why? Because IT'S NOT A NOUN!!! And, adjectives don't have plural forms. That's why.
The fact that this happened within the confines of a bd/sm site is irrefutable validation--because it's immanent--of my gut feeling that none of us can be submissives.
We can be slaves.
We can be subordinates.
We can be property.
We can be a lot of other things, including floor sitters.
But, we can't be submissives.
All of us who try to be submissives are wannabes!
All of us who claim to be submissives are fakes!
(This same line of thinking should be true for Dominants as well, though I haven't run the spell check.)
You would think the same would apply to the term dominants but my spell checker doesn't catch it. Conversely, scene is a noun and is not a verb. People cannot scene even thought the term is used widely in the bdsm vernacular.
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