Talk:Come

Cum

In the sense of semen it's normally written cum. 193.131.186.150 13:17, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Normally if you are British. I'll make a note that it is the American English spelling. Let's not have an edit war about this };-D Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 13:33, Oct 31, 2003 (UTC)

I think it's originally a US English term that has been imported into British English. However I don't think I can do research on this topic from work ;) Secretlondon 13:43, Oct 31, 2003 (UTC)

I was talking to some pmbridge University about the subject when I was there, and they say that it the term comes from "come to orgasm", I forget where it was that that phrase was popularised. They say that it got deformed to 'cum' only very recently, by those who didn't understand that it SHOULD be spelt "come", and it just caught on. I'm not sure how true any of that was, but it's what they told me. --Oppolo 17:45, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Content

It seems to me ... unfortunate, let us say, that nearly the entirety of the article on a pretty basic (not to say seminal) concept in life is on the vulgar meaning -- there's almost no mention of the non-sexual sense(s) of coming. --Calieber 15:48, Oct 31, 2003 (UTC)

Also - none of the pages that link to it are linking that that meaning. They seem to be referring to an old band. 193.131.186.150 15:49, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Merger proposal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was not merged. - M0rphzone (talk) 06:47, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I propose that Cum be merged into Come. It looks like the word "cum" is within the scope the "Come" page. Alternatively we could reduce the scope "Come" page to not cover "cum" and move the "cum" content to the "Cum" page. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 18:51, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I oppose this proposal. I think the differences between the words justify two separate pages for disambiguation purposes. bd2412 T 18:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I also oppose this proposal, for the same reasons. Miscellanium (talk) 01:09, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Sexual slang

I don't understand why the sexual slang bit was removed. As both seem to be common accepted spellings (with cum perhaps being more common although also sometimes seen as more vulgar and others using cum for the noun and come for verb), it should be covered in both articles or neither. Since both are disambigs, it makes little sense to prioritise one article over the other either so best just cover the same thing in both rather than redirecting the reader to one bearing in mind also we are not a dictionary. This is of course a different thing from covering stuff that only relate to cum here which I agree we shouldn't do and those removals were proper. Nil Einne (talk) 15:23, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]