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[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 131 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

I don't think a dominatrix is for kids though.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago
[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

Kristanna Lokken is: The Terminatrix

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"Bigger and bolder and rougher and tougher In other words sucker, there is no other..."

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Neat call out, but what other modern examples are there?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 years ago

Don't forget the '-tress' (trix) or '-tess' suffix in modern English. Host/Hostess, Waiter/Waitress, Actor/Actress

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Great, now I can't stop giggling about hostrix

[-] scholar@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Terminatress

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[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

So a female aster is an Asterix?

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Also, a male Obelix must be an Obelor

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[-] Gonzako@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago
[-] yeather@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago

Silly rabbit

[-] cheerjoy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago
[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Still don’t really get it

[-] Aaroncvx@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

“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.

[-] audin@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

thanks for the explanation, now I can be sure this isn’t funny

[-] Aaroncvx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Happy to help.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

so what commercial was it ? I can't be sure it's worth it but I feel I have to know now... I'm invested in understanding this

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[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 years ago

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.”

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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)

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Simple way to remember:

Roses are red, violets are blue

Singular they predates singular you

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

I thought it’d been switching automatically for years. Might be wrong. Guess there’s a TamperMonkey script for it then.

Copy/paste tip, at least on iOS: use the share sheet (share icon), where they’ll give you the desktop URL - instead of copying from the URL bar.

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[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 30 points 2 years ago
[-] Kraiden@kbin.social 59 points 2 years ago

The feminine form of the mator obvs

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago
[-] pelya@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

The masculine form of matrix would be pater, because matrix translates as mother, or more specifically, uterus.

[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago
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[-] brecrest@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

I know I wasn't the only person who expected some transphobic shit and was pleasantly surprised.

[-] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

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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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago
[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 years ago

How do all the -ix names from asterix and obelix fit into this?

[-] krondo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

They're french...

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago

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)

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

That's Panoramix's fault. Or maybe Gettafix....

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[-] krondo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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!

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure the closest thing ancient Rome had to an aviator was the drunk who fell asleep in the siege catapult.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

we can all agree that whatever trix is it is NOT for rabbits.

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