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A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« on: January 28, 2013, 07:18:16 pm »
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2013, 07:56:32 pm »
My God words cannot describe how much I hate this Wolfspeak. It's just completely wrong. I don't care if people think "It's using a variety of words to make a post sound interesting," it's just not correct. Sure, there's definately a variety of words in there, but they certainly do not make the post sound interesting, it makes you sound like a fool who has swallowed a thesaurus trying to sound intelligent. *Throws dictionary* You're paragraph is incorrect nonsense! Get a dictionary out and look up the meaning of the words you just wrote.

When I've been in roleplays with people typing Wolfspeak, I can literally feel my eye twitching and my heart rate going up. And I can't ask them to stop doing it because more than likely I'll have an entire pack ganging up on me, bad mouthing me for 'critising' their RP style, when I'm just telling them that what they typed is grammatically incorrect. Is it a roleplay style to do that? Weird.
I let people off with "cranium" because I actually think that's acceptable as it does refer to a part of the skull, but everything else in that list is a massive No. And I've honestly never seen anyone refer to a male as a 'brujo'... Wtf? Two completely different meanings there!
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2013, 08:08:56 pm »
How could you forget banners, tassels and flags? They're all apparently synonymous with 'tail'. Apparently. There's also orbs, spheres and optics- which are frequently used to describe eyes.

Even so, the thread's a good giggle (+floof'd)! Wolfspeak's one of the few things I completely loathe in-game; I can understand it after a spot of scrutinizing, but I'd genuinely rather roleplay with a chat-speaker. It's just too much purple prose for my personal tastes. Good for you if that's your preferred method of roleplay, I'm just staying well away from you; the pretentious lanuage leaves me so confused and flustered. I've left so many groups because of it! :D

It reminds me of the roleplay I had the misfortune of reading a week or two ago in Ficho. Whilst I completely respect other's styles, this one person seemingly flung open a thesaurus, picked the longest word listed there and crushed it into their roleplay, irrespective of its meaning. It was genuinely several paragraphs of something along the lines of:

"Her obsidian cinctures umbrageously scintillated as the fae's terrene vacillated towards the conterminous brute."

I believe I was blocked after politely attempting to correct them, initially pointing out that cinctures are these, not eyelids. I'd honestly rather see people go for the more simplistic terms! I've an extensive biological vocabulary from the four years of my degree, yet I'll still refer to pieces of anatomy as their common names; it allows a wider variety of roleplayers to interact with you, as opposed to a select few who can scarcely understand what you're babbling on about. :P

Edit: WAIT I ZOOMED INTO THAT PICTURE. I CAN'T-... DEAD. AFHG-. Also screenshotted the roleplay I was talking about!
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2013, 08:45:56 pm »
Of course, people are allowed to use any RP style, be it Literate or Chat-Speak. But using words which make completely no sense is just awful.
For me, being a non-native English speaker (I also learned most of my words and grammar thanks to the internet and movies. If I learned nothing except what they taught us in school, I'd probably write in the most basic writing way possible), it is very hard to understand what those people actually meant with their posts. I tend to stay away from RolePlayers who always use words such as "banners" or "cranium". Quoting an user, "If your cranium moved, your character would die in a slow and painful way.". It just makes me think why can't people use the common words of what they actually meant? When I was new, I had absolutely no idea what most of these meant, and it was frustrating.
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2013, 10:20:09 pm »
-Picks up a copy of the Wolfspeak Dictionary-
"You know where this belongs?" -chunks it in the garbage- "In the trash can."

This is just one of the few reasons I don't roleplay as a wolf.... In fact, I don't have one wolf character in my character vault at all. I often times don't understand a word of this giberish some of these people tell me during a roleplay. I understand some of it... just some of it. I've tried roleplaying in wolf RPs, but would often get questioned as to why I wouldn't use any wolfspeak words. I find wolfspeak to be so unecessary in roleplaying chat. Why not use words like "head", "eyes", "she-wolf", "ears", etc when roleplaying? It makes things alot easier for people to understand you.  
Don't get me wrong, I'm NOT hating on anyone who uses wolfspeak. If that's what they are comfortable with, that's fine.... just leave me out of it. I can't tell people how to roleplay.

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Btw, what is that absord looking creature at the top of the page? Did it escape from a Ripley's Believe it or Not side show, or a circus? O_O
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2013, 11:34:20 pm »
That stuff is bogus. Legit.
But that graphic is hilarious.

It's one thing if you want to be interesting, but it's not if you don't even know half the words their using, and I highly doubt they do.
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2013, 11:39:40 pm »
I hate wolfspeak... It just is annoying, and it shouldn't be used... Since sometimes it doesn't make sense when your using them...!!!
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2013, 11:53:27 pm »
I called myself a "femme" once by accident (meant to type female but I guess I held the m down too long and the a and l didn't take, idk) and like five people ganged up on me saying that I had called myself a feminine lesbian and I was like "wat."  I tend to use wolfspeak because most of the packs I'm in use it, and I don't want to be the odd one out.  I'm not a fan of it, though.  Meh.
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2013, 01:11:48 am »
I feel the same way about wolfspeak. But there's no need to do it because everyone else does! Stick to your guns and keep roleplaying the way you want to. You might even get some to change their mind! :D
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2013, 01:41:46 am »
Ha, almost everyone in my wolf packs use wolfspeak. I don't really mind...but it does get confusing if they're using really weird words and I have no idea what they mean.