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Its isn't so much what it's meaning was, but what it has become that makes it unusable.
The "potential obscenity" of the word cum has a long history: see my response to Pete O'Hanlon here.
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A useful convention is to format words/phrases that are not English in an Italic font-face. That will, of course, be nihil obstat for people with lascivious minds perceiving smut. cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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As it is still in common use in its common form, including in terms such as Magna Cum Laude and Summa Cum Laude, then it is perfectly acceptable to use it in the correct form, rather than the incorrectly spelled version of "come". Just because the word has also acquired a sexual term doesn't mean that it needs to be audited out of normal usage.
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Hi Brady, I hope you keep it clean, and avoid excess decoration. cheers, Bill
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Oh yes, that is a huge requirement on my side. Aversion to excess decoration even tempted me to use the Jekyll static pages framework for the blog.
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