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The word Dominatrix now makes sense to me. It's such a neat word. I never thought of the male equivalent being simply a Dominator.
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I don't think a dominatrix is for kids though.
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I hope not
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"Bigger and bolder and rougher and tougher In other words sucker, there is no other..."
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Neat call out, but what other modern examples are there?
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I don't get the reply
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Silly rabbit
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The Tor browser can be used to access the dark web. Normal browsers, such as Firefox or Chrome don't have the correct protocol to access the onion network.
Trix are for kids, was part of an advertising campaign for Trix cereal in the U.S.
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I kind of want to learn some Middle English stock phrases to grill anyone who complains about the changing nature of English being just political correctness. Like, “You want to be a language conservative? Here’s some Chaucer-era language motherfucker.”
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here's my favourite one: the oldest known use of singular "they" dates back further than the use of singular "you", and it's so old that it was still spelled with a thorn (þei)
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Simple way to remember:
Roses are red, violets are blue
Singular they predates singular you
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Or people complaining about language changing in general. Not only are they usually wrong (eg "literally" has been used as a figurative intensifier for hundreds of years), they just happen to define the "correct" use of words as whatever they learned as kids.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescriptionI think the examples section might have some
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Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn't switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the ".m" from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
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What is the matrix?
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The feminine form of the mator obvs
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Git er dun
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The masculine form of matrix would be pater, because matrix translates as mother, or more specifically, uterus.
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Tom mater
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Mater, meaning mother. Making it feminine implies it's the mother of the mother, i.e. the womb.
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The OP pic is suuuper misleading. It didn't keep the suffixes (sufficies), it kept the whole words if they were loaned. The suffices were never applied to any other gendered loan words.
The loan words with this suffix remain in use.
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I know I wasn't the only person who expected some transphobic shit and was pleasantly surprised.
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And don't words that end in -ix get pluralized with -ices? So you'd have Aviatrices, Dominatrices and Gladiatrices. I need some of these I can use in real life, dammit!
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cockatrix (cockatrices) is usable... maybe
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Cockator.
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How do all the -ix names from asterix and obelix fit into this?
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They're french...
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Well, first of, a lot of Keltic romanized names end in -ix. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/780hf9/asterix_and_gaulish_names/ )
And that was enough for the writers to go go on a punny tangent with names that end on -ixe or -isk (idee fixe, asterisk)
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That's Panoramix's fault. Or maybe Gettafix....
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... Bro
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The amount of fumbling people trying to interpret this meme is only akin to the followers of brian in life of brian! This tumblr's shall be hailed both as a prophet of gender affirmation and as a lowly scum trying to dive in the depths of depravity that is the dark web. A genuine point of contention. I am truly amazed!
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I'm pretty sure the closest thing ancient Rome had to an aviator was the drunk who fell asleep in the siege catapult.
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we can all agree that whatever trix is it is NOT for rabbits.
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so the omnitrix is a girl
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starts stopwatch
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Trix is for women
Silly Tumblr... Trix is for kids.
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Did you reach the end of the text in the first post?
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I'm watching Netflor
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Neftrix is for women.
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Oh that got me good.
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