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[Loredana Varonia]

Greetings all! A couple of days ago I had a discussion on SL. I simply wanted to know whether "bond" is an onlinism for lazy goreans and whether it should be "bond-maid".
Replies I got: "Bondmaid is correct, without hyphen" - " it IS bond" - "learn to read first, I reccomend the 'marauders'. ... Well I did what was recommended and in the marauders i did not find a single bond but only hundreds of bond-maids. Always written with hyphen.

Moreover, some gave me quotes where - they pretended - it is talked of bonds in this book. but the indicated pages seem to differ for the various printings.

I have got the first printing of 1975 and if later there were any changes, this might be considered as closed to the original.

It is not that I want to be right by all means, but it drives me crazy when people pretend certain things and then cannot admit that they had been wrong. Nobody is perfect ... and this is just the reason why I had asked this question and why I tried to get information!
So, does anyone have information on whether the books printed later differ from the 1st printings? In such case, BtB gets even more difficult

[Matthius Attis]

hon... being new to gor.. really people shortening things just for the sake of typing... should truly be your last worries...

[Conall DeCuir]

Isn't it so that we can call a slave as we like it ? 

[Heatherly Jewell]

Norman does in fact use the word -Bond- In his book. Alone and as a precursor to other words other than the typical -maid- I believe also in Witness He also uses bond several times during the narroration of janice's recount. I'll have to scan through my PDF's to find the actual sentences.

But further. Bond is also a term to denote a slave's potion. IE-embonded. All slaves are thusly Northern Or southern, Embonded.

And to elaborate on another post by Connal (Hi btw) A Free is by definition never wrong. So should they choose to call me Bond, Bondmaid, Slut, Shit herder, etc etc Makes lil or no difference and does not denote a tone or air of Laziness. Merely the superiority of thier placement in standing upon the virtual realm of Gor as a Free.

I shared the condition of slavery with other bond wenches, (Slavegirl)
(when I scrounge up more I'll post em for ya)

[ravyn blackheart]

*waves t her chain and grins* the free can and do call us what they wish. when my Jarl and i first moved he even told another Jarl that i was his slut and to call her what they wished, she would answer, and I do.
I was given a slave name of caethes, it gets shortened to cae by some and by others it's just beast, slut, bond, hey you, girl.. whatever as long as i know they are talking to me I answer.

[Loredana Varonia]

Sorry, I was not talking of how the free called them. Maybe I was not clear. It was a slave calling herself "bond" and telling me "learn to read, and read marauders". However, that is what i did and found only "bond-maids" in this book!

And please leave it up to me what are my last worries. i just asked because i wanted to know! And i read many books before going to SL-Gor but of course i do not remember each line of them. so i had asked in a group. Anything wrong with asking if you do not know certain things?

[Heatherly Jewell]

Well. Why would it bother you that a slave just as you are called you bond? Are you not embonded as she is? You both hold the same station. So she is simply referring to you as bond as you hold the same -bond- in the North. That of a slave. And as far as reading goes, just because norman used different words to repeat the same thought 22 different ways, does that mean we should too? Because Norman took a whole chapter to describe a boat, should we then also take up a chapter full of writing and time in SL to describe say.....getting a horn or mead? Scrubbing the docks? Boarding a boat to go to another sim? I think not. Leave yourself and others room for creative liscense and not focus so much on what is written EXACTLY the way Norman would. You'll have way more fun and make more friends then by dissecting one word in the realm of SL.

[Loredana Varonia]

What is wrong if I simply want to gather knowledge? I am not a free woman as "an ignorant free woman is a common place. An ignorant slave is an absurdity", as Norman said!

I asked a simple question and was waiting for a simple reply. that's all.

[Ashoka Mosely]

You can ask away, thats what forums are for, to educate and not to pass judgement.

There are alot of things though that are used in SL Gor that are not in the books, i think there is a reference to alot of this in posts in other threads on onlineisms, etc. Interesting stuff!

[Heatherly Jewell]

Wow. Umm. Ok. No need to take anybodies answers as complaint or a jibe. Everyone, myself included who answered your post was merely trying to help answer your question. If it was posed wrong in the OP. That is not the fault of those reading and responding. You rephrased your OP. I answered it again. Take it or leave it. No need though to get so defensive on the boards over some one (or multiples) trying to -help- YOU out.....

[Aphris Myoo]

Replies I got: "Bondmaid is correct, without hyphen" - " it IS bond" - "learn to read first, I reccomend the 'marauders'. ... Well I did what was recommended and in the marauders i did not find a single bond but only hundreds of bond-maids. Always written with hyphen.

Strange, my version its all without a hyphen

It was a bondmaid circle.

etc

but also

They looked to one another in fear, and put down
their bowls, as they finished, fed bond-wenches.

Bond used with an hyphen and connected to wench

and

"Can I endure such pleasure?" she asked, frightened.
"You are bond," I told her. "You will have no choice."

"I do not care much for the making of women of
Torvaldsland bond," said Ivar.

Bond seperate

So I would not worry at all, and use any form you like.