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.
I don’t think a dominatrix is for kids though.
I hope not
Kristanna Lokken is: The Terminatrix
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.
So they were only allowed to use Terminatior in the show title?
Yeah. IP rights agreements are weird.
Neat call out, but what other modern examples are there?
“Bigger and bolder and rougher and tougher In other words sucker, there is no other…”
Don’t forget the ‘-tress’ (trix) or ‘-tess’ suffix in modern English. Host/Hostess, Waiter/Waitress, Actor/Actress
Great, now I can’t stop giggling about hostrix
Terminatress
Ostrich you say?
heh. Actrix.
Janitrix.
So a female aster is an Asterix?
Also, a male Obelix must be an Obelor
Only if the Romans win
Asteror
I don’t get the reply
Silly rabbit
Still don’t really get it
“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.
thanks for the explanation, now I can be sure this isn’t funny
Happy to help.
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
There were a lot of them:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4bHnph0ZC4M&pp=ygURdHJpeCBhcmUgZm9yIGtpZHM%3D
wow they really went all in with the animation
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.
That didn’t occur to me. Thank you!
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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.”
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)
Simple way to remember:
Roses are red, violets are blue
Singular they predates singular you
~~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.
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.
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.
Like such as?
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What is the matrix?
The feminine form of the mator obvs
Git er dun
The masculine form of matrix would be pater, because matrix translates as mother, or more specifically, uterus.
Tom mater
Mater, meaning mother. Making it feminine implies it’s the mother of the mother, i.e. the womb.
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.
I know I wasn’t the only person who expected some transphobic shit and was pleasantly surprised.
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!
cockatrix (cockatrices) is usable… maybe
Cockator.
How do all the -ix names from asterix and obelix fit into this?
They’re french…
That’s Panoramix’s fault. Or maybe Gettafix…
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)
… Bro
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!
I’m pretty sure the closest thing ancient Rome had to an aviator was the drunk who fell asleep in the siege catapult.
we can all agree that whatever trix is it is NOT for rabbits.
so the omnitrix is a girl
starts stopwatch
Oh that got me good.
