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sanita -> RE: Pet peeve (4/10/2005 12:54:48 PM)
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i do not like people who don't know me calling me "sis" at all, but it does serve a purpose. anyone in IRC that greets me as sis... well, i know i won't bother with them too much, except to watch out. EmeraldSlave's post about the knives... that's what i perceive when i hear it.
as for "subbie:" i love when Master calls me subbie, and i will use it to refer to myself, but only with Him. it is a pet name for me. i don't like the thought of someone else using it to address me, though.
and for the C/caps thing, i see so many posts berating it in these boards, but i view it differently. i met my first Dom online in a vanilla site, we dated, and then He got me thinking about BDSM. and while we had r/t experiences, i really found myself in online exploration. in the Park chatrooms, where i was a regular, and where i learned so much about others in the lifestyle, the C/caps were used regularly, and used to connote basic respect. it is how i learned to communicate in chat and email, and IM. it just is. i don't kick myself, when i address a Dom as "you," however, i usually cap it, in order to feel correct.
in other languages, most or all nouns, not just proper names, are capitalized in writing. "Sie" in German is a more respectful version of "you" singular, which is used to address superiors, elders, or people you do not know. "du" and "sie" are the familiar singular, and plural versions of you respectively. do they get capped when spoken? no... but in writing they do.
i see the Y/you thing as a colloquialism of some sort. i sure as heck hope i will not be negated because i use it, but i do understand that sometimes, when someone tries to make it a do or die policy, it is irritating.
and as for the OP, *grin* my pet peeve is condescension, and the assumption that when a person does something differently, they can't be right. not that i have seen it in this thread, btw! just when i do see it, it irks.
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