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.
Yeah, she was called that in the movie. Summer Glau never was, but that’s probably because they never actually said “Terminator” in that show due to rights issues, always calling them “machines” or “metal” or referring to them by model number.
Don’t forget the ‘-tress’ (trix) or ‘-tess’ suffix in modern English. Host/Hostess, Waiter/Waitress, Actor/Actress
I don’t get the reply
“You come into my house” and (insert thing that offended you) in this case setting up a post which gave you some interesting information only to pull out the rug with a pun referencing a commercial many 90s and 00s kids had seen ten million times.
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.
Lmao it has nothing to do with the Tor browser.
It’s that the -tor suffix applies to men and women. A female pilot is not an aviatrix anymore, she’s an aviator.
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.”
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)
~~https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription~~
I think the examples section might have some
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.
What is the matrix?
