evergrey(sub female){Ashigeru}

Ev's kink corner

I've been around a few decades, and have a bit to say. I'm not going to call myself an expert, but I'm happy to share my thoughts on BDSM.

Slashyspeak- a confession.

6 years ago. November 20, 2017 at 11:14 PM

My mother was, among other things, an English major. She instilled in me a love of language. I became an avid reader quite young.

Now, many of you have likely come across the "slashyspeak" phenomenon online. Some of you practice it. You do you! That's ok. It's a quirky bit of online protocol, and everyone's preferences are their own on that account. It hurts no one!

Except, it does hurt my head just a tiiiiny bit, because when someone types out "hey A/all, how are Y/you doing today?"

In my head, it reads as a stutter.

So it sounds, in my head, like "hey a-all, how are y-you doing today?"

Am I the only one who parses it like that?

TakenLower - Hehe should see my post from a few weeks ago ending with “I with a capital I am a Cunt with a capital C. With a lower case H, he is Master with a capital M. With a lower case w, we are Master, and his Cunt.”

6 years ago

gospodin(dom male){Married} - This has always scanned that way to me, although I "hear" the "A/all" slightly differently, as "Eh-all". I kind of internalised it as an "all y'all" sort of construction!

6 years ago

TakenLower - ? perfect

6 years ago

Bunnie - I find it a bit strange too. I couldn’t work out why though, you may have just helped my poor head a bit :)

6 years ago

evergrey(sub female){Ashigeru} - It's pure internet chatroom protocol. I remember when it first popped up in the late 90s or early 2000s and I thought "AAA MY ENGLISH" but I do try to respect that different people do different things. I don't feel the need to address people differently just because of what they identify as, not until we are involved, anyway, but I recognize that other people do.
But aaaa, my English!

6 years ago

gospodin(dom male){Married} - I've been using the Internet since the 1980s (hence my insistence on the capital I, since that's the proper name of the largest internet in the world), and in the late 90s I finally had to get over my frustration that some people just never bothered to capitalise anything. It was good for me.

6 years ago

evergrey(sub female){Ashigeru} - Much to my shame, I noticed just now that I used the wrong "their" in the original version of this post.
I'd blame the mead, but I think the likely culprit was multitasking. Hah.

6 years ago

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evergrey​(sub female){Ashigeru}

Ev's kink corner

Slashyspeak- a confession.

evergrey(sub female){Ashigeru}