Why don't we spell it "cwm?"

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Solid Snek
Racism against the Welsh.

I looked it up, and according to this thread on Stack Exchange, the earliest known usage of "come" (in the sexual sense) was in 1650, with "cum" becoming popular only with the explosion of porn in the 1970s. "Coom" is a much more recent construction (I've only really been hearing it maybe in the last five years or so?), so even IF the Welsh weren't so marginalized and ignored, it wouldn't have had time yet for enough people to make the switch to "cwm".

It is a good idea, though. Maybe we could try to force-meme it? Subtly implant the idea in the minds of some impressionable furry cwmyrs, and let these cwmyrs take cwm to Tiktok and Bluesky?
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Frederica Bernkastel said:
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Racism against the Welsh.

I looked it up, and according to this thread on Stack Exchange, the earliest known usage of "come" (in the sexual sense) was in 1650, with "cum" becoming popular only with the explosion of porn in the 1970s. "Coom" is a much more recent construction (I've only really been hearing it maybe in the last five years or so?), so even IF the Welsh weren't so marginalized and ignored, it wouldn't have had time yet for enough people to make the switch to "cwm".

It is a good idea, though. Maybe we could try to force-meme it? Subtly implant the idea in the minds of some impressionable furry cwmyrs, and let these cwmyrs take cwm to Tiktok and Bluesky?
 
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Solid Snek said:
"Coom" is a much more recent construction (I've only really been hearing it maybe in the last five years or so?)
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I'd think that it came from the evolving meme, 30-Year-Old Boomer that spawned the Doomer and the Bloomer, as well as the Coomer, and then Coomer backformed into coom like "sculpt" came from "sculptor" not the other way around.

This has to be a wild time to be an etymologist.

Solid Snek said:
It is a good idea, though. Maybe we could try to force-meme it? Subtly implant the idea in the minds of some impressionable furry cwmyrs, and let these cwmyrs take cwm to Tiktok and Bluesky?
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Maybe it'd help with word filters. Furries like their owo and uwu; they should enjoy a cwm.
 
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Aunt Carol said:
I'd think that it came from the evolving meme, 30-Year-Old Boomer that spawned the Doomer and the Bloomer, as well as the Coomer, and then Coomer backformed into coom like "sculpt" came from "sculptor" not the other way around.

This has to be a wild time to be an etymologist.


Maybe it'd help with word filters. Furries like their owo and uwu; they should enjoy a cwm.
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Yeah, that's where I heard it first. Coomer Wojacks began to appear saying "I'm gonna coom", and then it started to become a more broadly used term.

Watch, in another three hundred years, normies will think Everest was the site of a 20th-century sex cult; because otherwise, why would the anchuents have named part of the mountain "Cwm"?
 
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Watch, in another three hundred years, normies will think Everest was the site of a 20th-century sex cult; because otherwise, why would the anchuents have named part of the mountain "Cwm"?
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They were really concerned about "summiting," which is an obvious synonym for "peaking."
 
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Aunt Carol said:
It's weird every time it crops up in the narration of videos about people dying horribly on Everest.
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lol, that's an oddly specific form of autism!

... which I can definitely relate to. I remember around the time Covid hit, I did a deep dive into Everest videos, and climbing in general, which inevitably leads to The Algorithm pimping out hours upon hours of horrible mountaineering disasters. Famous Corpses on Everest, Japanese Soldiers Freeze to Death in Blizzard, and that one where the Russian lady had to eat her own baby after some KGB officers left her in a crashed plane and forgot to come back for her.

And now every time they mention Cwms, the videos will hit different. Thanks, Aunt Carol.
 
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Solid Snek said:
I did a deep dive into Everest videos, and climbing in general, which inevitably leads to The Algorithm pimping out hours upon hours of horrible mountaineering disasters. Famous Corpses on Everest, Japanese Soldiers Freeze to Death in Blizzard, and that one where the Russian lady had to eat her own baby after some KGB officers left her in a crashed plane and forgot to come back for her.
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I got to the same place starting from radiation horror and space program deaths, with a sprinkling of barotrauma and cave diving. And the Death Valley Germans. I'm all about the "Walking Ghost Phase" and Rumsfeld would call the "Unknown Unknown."

Everest is a lot like having a version of outer space that you can just hike yourself into, taking selfies all the way.

Freakin' cwmers.
 
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