Guy im gonna cum1/19/2024 ![]() ![]() How do you feel about “tonite” for “tonight” or “lite” for “light”? Inquiring minds want to know. Interesting take on cum … as your column ventured into linguistics. Of all the words out there with more than one meaning-dick, dong, cock, pussy, beaver, box, crack, rack, sack-why does this one require special linguistic treatment? -Dan Savage If we don’t have to spell it “dik” when we’re referring to male genitalia-or the genitals of penis-havers-I don’t see why “come” needs to be spelled “cum” when referring to someone climaxing or when referring to ejaculate. As I’ve said before, no one is confused when someone calls a person a “dick” in print and then goes on to wax poetic about the dick they sucked in the next sentence. ![]() But the sticky issue for me, if you’ll pardon the expression, remains the seemingly unnecessary and arbitrary use of an alternate spelling in this one instance. Thank you for taking the time to write, Professor Newman, and please forgive me for peeving you. Michael Newman, Professor of Linguistics and Chair, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College/CUNY Just ask Rick Santorum, your former college roommate, or the men who’ve cummed and cummed hard while a nice vagina-haver pegged their ass. But why shudder? Why not appreciate it instead? “Cummed” shows us how creative we are with our language, how we play with it, and, in this case, do something useful, differentiating the sublime “got off” (climaxed) from the banal “got there” (arrived).ĭon’t fall into useless peeving, Dan! You’ve famously instigated language change. Cummed is more interesting-and also causes peevers to shudder-because it’s a real change in the language. It’s slang! Are you really gonna insist slang follow uptight and buttoned-down spelling rules, Dan? That’s just stoopid. In terms of the sticky substance at hand (or on hand), cum as a verb and cumming are just alternative spellings, which are common enough for slang. And indeed, generations upon generations of grandchildren turned Latin into Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and a host of lesser-known forms of ruination. Documentation of this phenomenon goes back to the Roman times. (That’s our technical term for non-linguists.) Grandparents are forever lamenting about how their grandchildren’s generation is ruining the language. The point is language always changes, and linguists are interested in these changes however much they horrify normal people. You see, the snide sound there is due to the fact that what causes peevers to shudder causes linguists to get interested. The technical term here used among linguists for this kind of phenomenon is “peeve.” Let me clarify, it’s not the “cum,” “cumming,” and “cummed” that’s a peeve, but the shuddering. And I have some on “cum,” “cumming,” and (shudder) “cummed.” I thought maybe you’d be interested in some expertise on linguistic matters, too. On your podcast, you frequently ask researchers “whatchyougot” on all kinds of sex- and romance-related questions. Please reload the page and try again.Īs you can see by my signature, Dan, I’m a linguist. Senate.”ĬNN has reached out to Maese-Czeropski and has not received a response.ĬNN also reached out to the US Capitol Police, which said it “cannot confirm details regarding the people in the video” but “are aware and looking into this.” CNN also reached out to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office but has not heard back.Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. “I will be exploring what legal options are available to me in these matters,” Maese-Czeropski wrote.Ĭardin’s office later released a statement announcing that Maese-Czeropski is “no longer employed by the U.S. ![]() While some of my actions in the past have shown poor judgement, I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace. In the statement, Maese-Czeropski said, in part, “This has been a difficult time for me, as I have been attacked for who I love to pursue a political agenda. CNN reached out to Cardin’s office and was directed to a statement posted by Aidan Maese-Czeropski on LinkedIn. The Daily Caller reported the staffer worked for Democratic Sen. Police are “looking into” the video, which was obtained and published by the Daily Caller.ĬNN has not independently obtained the video nor confirmed the identity of those purportedly involved. A Senate staffer is out of a job after the publication of a video appearing to show two men having sex in a Senate hearing room.
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