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DMFParadox -> RE: I now feel sorry for Dommes.... (9/29/2007 12:09:00 AM)
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OT--You know, if anything here could make me feel self-conscious and awkward, it's the capitalization quirks. Silly, eh? The 'I Am A Master (i am a sub)' bit of business... when I get emails like that, I try to respond in kind, but I feel really silly. Maybe since I used to be a copyeditor. So far, only one girl actually has me feeling comfortable addressing "Myself" as "Master" with a capital. I'm still trying to pin down how that happened. I've got no problem with the word; I'm a master of many things, and the battles were hard fought, so I simply think of them when I use it. But the caps... they get me. Which can actually be brought back to on-topic, with this spin I just thought of. Communication of every kind works in one setting or another... and the guys (and girls) with the really crappy letters are sometimes writing poetry... IF you have the backstory. The flip side of that is, they assume you have the backstory. That you get the same in-jokes, felt the same wonder at some things and the same confusion or dismay at other things. And it's hard--very hard--for the agressor in an interaction to change their tune, because that's seen as very incongruent if not handled well. Nine out of ten, it's better to keep hammering away with the same hammer if someone doesn't step in and hand you a better one. Sucks for everybody involved, but that's life. Same for caps play. But I'm figuring out what it tells me when it's used, and what my use of it tells others. I'm adapting.
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