{"id":388,"date":"2009-10-13T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/2009\/10\/13\/388\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:28:23","slug":"cum-or-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/2009\/10\/13\/388\/","title":{"rendered":"Cum or Come?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Current mood:\u00a0\u00a0curious
\nCategory:<\/strong> Writing and Poetry<\/p>\n

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I have been working with a new editor and she’s sharp as a tack. We’ve wrestled over a few things and managed to play nicely. However, I noticed that she changed all my “comes” to “cums” which happens to be a pet peeve of mine. I have no problem with the word being used in porn or the pages of sex magazines, or even colloquially.
\nI just don’t like it in my books. I think it’s a lazy word and I love words. Come<\/em> is a word that conjures up all kinds of things…it beckons and seduces (in my mind anyway).
\nCum<\/em>, unfortunately is so prevalent, even spell check accepts it.
\nIt’s a scary word in uneducated hands however because I’ve read contest entries and manuscripts where aspiring authors use cum<\/em> where come<\/em> should be. Honestly!
\nI read a romance author’s first few chapters recently and she had the characters “cumming to dinner.” I was horrified.
\nMy new editor is fighting for cum<\/em> and we’ll see who wins the battle of the c words but it got me thinking.
\nWhat if cum<\/em> became the accepted spelling?
\nI remember a lovely line of Shakespeare’s, Come unto these yellow sands<\/em>…it just wouldn’t have the same resonance if the line was Cum unto these yellow sands. <\/em>To me, it conjurs up images of someone’s uncontrollable peeing…
\n<\/em>What about Alan Parker’s wonderful WWII-era movie, Come See the Paradise? <\/em><\/em>Would you want to see it with the word Cum<\/em> inserted? <\/em>Wouldn’t you wonder just where this paradise might be?
\n<\/em>My mind boggles thinking of children in church singing Cum unto me…
\nDuran Duran <\/em>might have had a hit with Cum Undone…<\/em>in fact, they might have had an even bigger hit. But I digress. It just doesn’t look as pretty as Come<\/em>.
\n<\/em>How about you? What do you think? I want to know! Cum…er, I mean, come post your comments!<\/p>\n

Aloha oe,<\/p>\n

A.J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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