Subdominant

Wicked223

This doesn't even make any sense, it's just another word for "submissive".

glennmagusharvey

I don't think there's even another meaning for "mediant", unfortunately.

Counterclock

How are submissive people special enough to get two word, I want two words for when people tie me up for naughtyness.

Bob

Holy run-on sentence Batman!

Wicked223

That's it, Counterclock's second word is holyrunonsentencebatman.

Counterclock

Oh hey, MISS ALL CAPs is lecturing a tired person on grammar.

;_;

ClockworkUniverse

^^^That's not a run-on sentence; it's a comma splice.

/pedant.

DYRE

But that is sometimes considered to be a type of run-on sentence as well, apparently, depending on who you ask.  I thought the same thing as you, but... then I looked it up.

glennmagusharvey

How is that a "comma splice"?  It's missing a comma, rather than having a comma spliced into the sentence at an improper juncture.

It's a run-on sentence.

DYRE

^ What?

How are submissive people special enough to get two word, I want two words for when people tie me up for naughtyness.

There's clearly a comma.

ClockworkUniverse

^^Um...what? There's definitely a comma where the period should be. Are we talking about the same sentence?

Ninja'd.

Bob

You mean there's a comma where a question mark should be.

ClockworkUniverse

Well, that depended on whether he was talking about post 1 or post 3.

glennmagusharvey

Oh, I totally misread that sentence.

I read the second half of that as:
"I want two words for when people tie me up[, i.e., I want two words] for naughtyness."

Counterclock

Run on sentences derail XD.

I love this place.

BlackHumor

@Wicked: You sure that word doesn't mean what's normally called a "switch"? Because I dunno why you would mash together "dominant" and "submissive" if all you meant was "submissive".

Oh, and it sometimes annoys me when people use "dom" and "sub" when they actually mean "top" and "bottom".

MadassAlex

It's a term in music theory that refers to one of the standard intervals.

I forget which one, though. 

The_Edge

I probably just means a subterranean dominant. Morlocks like to get kinky too, I guess.

glennmagusharvey

Tonic = scale degree 1 ("do"), or the I chord.  In the key of C major, this is C, or the C major chord (C E G).

Dominant = scale degree 5 ("so"), or the V chord.  In the key of C major, this is G, or the G major chord (G B D).

Subdominant = scale degree 4 ("fa"), or the IV chord.  In the key of C major, this is F, or the F major chord (F A C).

I ii iii IV V vi vii° respectively are the tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, and leading tone, in a major key.

MadassAlex

Thanks, Glen!