I'm just wondering, how many of you actually use traditional spelling? For
instance spelling magic as magick. vampire as vampyre or fairy as faerie?
People often critisize the way my friends and I spell "Magick". I think
tradition spelling has a more interesting touch to it...
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posted on 27/3/2003 at 02:41 PM
Traditional? where'd you get THAT idea...
If you do your own thing, thats cool...but personally, Magic is Magic
goddammit...that stupid Special K is just another whacked out crowleyism.
Vampyre? right...whatever, florid extra Y's just seem sort of silly to
me...like you can't read and understand it well enough when it's spelled
Normally. Traditional in what respect? like old english? did you ever see
Old English writing...that shit was spelled different ways every freaking
sentence...and as for Fairy and Faerie...Faerie is old school, Fairy is San
Fran hot pants down at the brass rail. And whats WORSE! Why the hell do
people mangle english so bad...'specially in chatrooms...fuck, I can read
ANYTHING they say anymore...
Back in my day dammit...grumble grumble...
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posted on 27/3/2003 at 03:17 PM
I can't really think of a more puero topic for discussion. In future don't
use the word.
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posted on 28/3/2003 at 10:35 AM
Just so ya know.... Magic and Magick aren't the same thing. People
practicing witchcraft or any form of dark or light arts added the " K " to
the word magic to distinguish the two. Magic refers to the stuff actors (or
whatever those people claim to be) do on stage, for example: Sawing a woman
in half. Magick refers to old healing techniques, summoning demons or
whatnot, and the basic casting of spells.
As for vampyre and faerie. I don't know what the fuck is up with that.
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posted on 28/3/2003 at 11:41 AM
I'm all for creative spelling when it adds to the meaning of what you're
saying. Changing vampire to vampyre says absolutely nothing to me.
You can have lots of fun with spelling but not by trying to make yourself
look cool by pretending you're speaking olde english. Olde englysh was not
kewl. The reason everything was spelled wrong in old english is because
nobody knew how to spell. And I agree with Dolo about everything being
spelled different every thyme time tyme tiym tahm thayme tihmme - that
doesn't make it cool in any way, just illiterate.
These are creative fun ways to mis-spell:
Do you want to cum over after work?
Are you're whoremoans making that chair uncomfortable?
These make you sound like you want to be creative and literate but
aren't:
I'm a 500 year olde vampyre (trapped in a 16 year olde bodye)
My Magick is more stronger than your magic
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posted on 28/3/2003 at 01:28 PM
Haven't we had a similar conversation such as this before Devin? Yes,
sometimes I like to spell vampire, vampyre just for the hell of it. I
don't do that to make myself look "cool" and I love to spell night "nite,
because I prefer it. So do whatever the hell you wanna do, and if you ever
become a published author, you can get away with mispellings. Lord knows
how many mispellings or such you will catch in books during a lifetime.
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posted on 28/3/2003 at 03:52 PM
I don't use 'magick' or 'vampyre', but I do use 'faerie' and 'grey' (as
opposed to gray), since it looks better... *shrugs*
Each man's* speech to his own.
* I mean women's, too...
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posted on 28/3/2003 at 04:32 PM
Meh, I like spelling it like that. Ah well, whatever works...it's all good.
Does anything really matter nowadays?
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posted on 28/3/2003 at 04:39 PM
who told you that was 'traditional??' LOL.. sheesh..
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posted on 28/3/2003 at 07:59 PM
I also write grey. I have always preferred it that way. Why the hell not?
Whatever floats your boat. Whatever tickles your pickle. Whatever spanks
your monkey.
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posted on 29/3/2003 at 04:33 AM
good shit, Devin
my favorite was always "Fuck yoo and the whores yoo rode in on"
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posted on 29/3/2003 at 07:12 AM
I prefer blunt eg: fuck you, fuck off, DIE etc.....
it works for me!
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Nicholas
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posted on 29/3/2003 at 03:03 PM
I think a vampyre is a vampire that gets stuck out in the sun.. get vam P Y
R E!
HAHAHAHAHAHAhahaaa.... i kill me
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posted on 29/3/2003 at 03:14 PM
If you really wanted to be "traditional", It would be neither "fairy" nor
"faerie" but rather "fayery" and would refer to the place where the beings
lived and not the beings themselves (ie; Nuns all live in a nunnery, and
the fay live in a fayery). Of course, running with that kind of internal
consistency, I would say that a drunkard is someone who drinks to excess,
anyone named Richard is someone who is rich to excess, and I guess a
bastard would be someone who bastes to excess ("Take that, turkey!").
Anyway, I have far, far too many anglicisms in my everyday lexicon for me
to get irritated about somebody else's literary affectations.
~Monolycus.
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posted on 29/3/2003 at 03:35 PM
Whats wrong
with writing it 'grey'?...its the only way I've been taught!
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posted on 29/3/2003 at 05:03 PM
I used to write flavor as flavour and honor as honour, then I decided I was
doing it only to be pretentious. I like to write gray as grey because it
sounds prettier to me. (I'm so superficial...awww.) I write fairy for
pretend fairies, like in a costume, but I write fae and fey for real
faeries. (Ohhh...worry if I'm delusional.) I stand by my claim.....I do
what the voices in my head tell me to. Muahahahaha.
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posted on 29/3/2003 at 09:41 PM
If memory serves me, I think we were taught in school that there are quite
a few differences between English and American. I am just too giddy right
now to remember any of the examples!
Baaah, and I just HATE not having any of the languages down to the
fingertips, I'd LOVE to express myself like most of you guys do, and not
using five words to describe something because I don't know the correct
term. It sux
And since it obviously went unnoticed the first time (frowns at Ironboots
) Magic and
Macick ARE two different matters, even to those who disapproves of the
content of either. It was not an invention to be 'special', simply to point
out the difference.
For example - my band, Magicka, was originally called Magica (hommage to
Disney's Magica de Spell) but I found out later that that name was taken,
and since I DO include references to magick in some of my lyrics, the
natural choice was to add the extra 'k'. I really would have preferred it
without, since I too am a bit tired of 'magickal mystery' BS.... (Sorry
MRD, no offence intended!)
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posted on 30/3/2003 at 03:33 AM
The differences between english and american spelling tend to annoy my
english teachers! I normally write colour as color and all the other words
that are meant to have a 'u' in them like that I leave out. I think the
words look better without the 'u', pluss it takes longer to type!
Also stuff like 'theatre' bugs the hell out of me. Why can't it be
"theater"?
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posted on 30/3/2003 at 07:38 AM
Yeah... colour/color, flavour/flavor, armour/armor... all that stuff. I
always get taught to spell it with the U or it justs gets marked wrong,
hehe. Now it seems odd to me to see it without.
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posted on 30/3/2003 at 09:40 AM
As for vampire/yre, I prefer wampire, my step-daughter's version. Somehow
it just brings to mind vampires with big mallets, going around whacking
people with them... WHAMP WHAMP!!!
I like grey rather than gray, but that's an alternate spelling in the
dictionary, isn't it? Faerie looks nicer than fairy, and I agree with the
Disneyish connotation of the latter spelling. But writing faerie just
seems a trifle affected, so I don't bother. As for extraneous letters,
etc., that kind of annoys me, but if you really want to, I won't stop you.
But the people who are addicted to that kind of spelling often DO end up
being "wannabe's", so it's a temptation to make a quick wannabe label when
I see someone using y's for i's and adding e's on the end of words.
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