Comments on: Dominate vs. Dominant

By: bootlicker

bootlicker — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:43:43 +0000

The other horror vying for top (?) honours is the “lay/lie” confusion: “The Domme told Her sub to lay on the floor.”

Richard, you’re absolutely right. An illiterate Top destroys Her image of superiority and severely diminishes the respect we have for Her.

“Being a superior is not for sissies,” shall we say?

By: -P

-P — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:58:28 +0000

Richard-combine the improper spelling within a run-on paragraph reply.

Horrors.

By: SammyXXX

SammyXXX — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:52:14 +0000

Smart people knowing the lack of search-engine intelligence, search for a “dominant woman” + “dominate”.

But I guess there is a difference between users and people… oh well, diving too much into your own html and php code can be a bad idea after all. You forget who will be looking for and at your page: the regular dude or babe, not a geek!

By: AlmostMagic

AlmostMagic — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:18:06 +0000

I totally agree with you on this Richard.

I know some truly lovely, wonderful people who have a really hard time with spelling and grammar and proper word usage. And I’m no English professor myself, of course. But it’s still a huge turn-off to see the kind of thing you’re talking about in a personal ad or first-impression kind of email.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:12:32 +0000

Illiteracy diminishes my ability to feel submissive.

By: roo-roo

roo-roo — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:56:00 +0000

This one annoys me too. It’d be like me saying, “I’m a submit man.”

By: Dev

Dev — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:42:41 +0000

The mistake is probably made by analogy to “laminate” (where you have a verb and then a noun). Perhaps these folks think cows are ruminates.

This one only bugs me a little since “dominant” and “dominate” (if you pronounce it like the noun form of “laminate”) sound so similar anyway. I try not to be too snobbish.