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ORIGINAL: Paulnz

I always capitalise my investment income, rather than spend it.

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ORIGINAL: Atavist
It simply strikes me as dehumanizing and I generally find it to be a turn-off. But then, I'm not into Gorean.

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ORIGINAL: MizSuz

I've seen very few people who do written English well enough the proper way to justify learning a form that is only marginally useful to an extremely small subset of a subset.

We could all stand to be better at it the way it's SUPPOSED to be done. Adding those rules only muddies the water more, to my mind.

If I were a responsible dominant concerned with the way my submissive writes I'd require they learn the proper way to write first. Frankly, I'd be more likely to ask them to learn another accepted language before I asked them to learn conventions that will only serve to deteriorate or confuse their current skill sets. If someone asks why it's done I'll explain to them the conventions, but I personally prefer to leave them alone.

My ego is not so fragile that I need someone to validate me with every written word. The submissive would get more use out of "a daily word" or "a daily grammar rule" or "weekly spelling tests" than the online conventions heaped upon online novices. They'd certainly do more to enrich the submissive's skill sets to address across a wider spectrum.

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ORIGINAL: sweetpleaser

joy, I'm sure you are not hurting anyone. Do what you think is best. I personally did not do chat much so never learned that way of address. Regarding third person writing, it is hard for me to follow. I know slaves do it because they don't have an identity; it belongs to their Master. They write like that to show respect and protocol. I say keep doing it and if someone doesn't want to read it, they won't.

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Given the fact that i don't cap my i but do cap You and adding the fact that my spelling and grammer sucks. Post posts no doubt causes You much irritation. If that is the case i am deeply sorry.

i enjoy exchanging ideas with You very much and would be sad if You decided to scroll past my posts because of how i type as apposed to what i type. i know of course that it is Your choice to make and You will do what You think is right.

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ORIGINAL: MizSuz


joy,

Your writing style doesn't bother me. I enjoy your posts as well. While there are some who are extremely difficult to read, I don't find yours to be so. It's kind of you to concern yourself with it, but please be at ease.

If your dominant wishes you to use the "BDSM conventions" then your first responsibility is to him/her. I'm as guilty as the next of poor grammar. I was simply stating my personal preference and my attitude about 'requirements' for submissives, my submissives.

There are a few posters here that I skip over completely, but very few. I'm more likely to skip a thread because the topic doesn't catch my interest. As for the specific people I skip over, it's usually those who have emphatically stated that they refuse to even try to become more legible. I figure if they don't want to be understood then I'm certainly not going to wade through their posts trying to understand them.

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ORIGINAL: songbird26

All right, I know I'm probably in the minority, here. And I know that as a relative newbie, I'd do better to adjust than to complain, but honestly, this is just *irking* me:

the habit of Capitalizing Any Reference To The Dominant and lowercasing any reference to the submissive. I know that it's a generally-accepted convention, and I don't mind at all when it's being used properly as a title (Master, Mistress, etc. when being used as direct address by another). But I can't help but cringe when I get emails full of "you will submit to Me and My Dominant Ways because I have experience with yada yada," or, even WORSE, when the dominant refers to himself in the third person (capitalized, of course!). It's so affected, and strikes me as so impossibly silly, and just makes me want to giggle, thus completely negating the point. And it's improper English, to boot, and my poor little English major soul is crying out for mercy.

Anyone else have this issue? Am I alone out in the wilderness here, with my hardcore proper usage issues? *grin* I'll understand entirely if I am. But I still won't respond to those emails.