A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it

[Butchershy]

Wolfspeak bothers me so much.  But what really makes me flip tables is when they call others illiterate.  UmMMM, excuse you, they can write and read English?  That makes them literate.  You speaking in words that are definitely not nonsensical?  If anyone is being illiterate, it's them.  (Sorry, i've been stalking this post for the while and just now decided to post.)

[Seijun]

Wolfspeak is okay with me, since I understand it. I would prefer that if they use wolf speak, they can use terms that are correct, but still explain it afterwards. The good news is, at least for me, wolf speak is rarely used now.

[VEE141]

I'm a pretty old player, been around for a few years. I sort of got out of Feral Heart just as wolfspeak was being 'introduced', though at the time I wasn't having a  fit about it or anything.
I used terms that would be considered wolfspeak ages ago, and if you ask me they did make sense in the time they were used. For instance, using the word  obsidian as a descriptive does work. One of my favourite songs uses the line "staring upwards at the gleaming stars in the obsidian sky" -Pendulum, Slam.
And I don't know, that seems like pretty good literature to me. I don't like Wolfspeak, not one bit. In fact it's probably the main reason, besides illiterates, that's keeping me from playing the game now. But I find that a lot of descriptive words, like obsidian which IS a term for black/dark, are getting seriously frowned apon because anything that's a little off is branded as wolfspeak.
but, nobody can deny that it has gotten way out of hand, and wolfspeak is utterly incorrect with the more common words like Pillars, Fae, Cranium... so on so forth.
I remember nearly blowing a gasket at the last person who used the word cranium. If you were to individually move your cranium, which is impossible, then I'd gladly accept a wolf moving it's cranium.

[WolfQueen]

this is an old topic. i guess you shouldn't post anymore????

[blueroseknight95]

      I can't say I like it. Though, everyone has their own way of RPing, and I'm not one to judge, unless it's one of my own RPs... what I do is ask them if they actually know what the words mean so that they know if they are using them correctly. X3 Me being an amateur writer, it really bothers me when such words are used so frivolously. Then there's the *bleep*er that says "I'm using it correctly" and freaks the heck out about it. And it's not a subtle freak out, either. .-. They go on this rant, and someone ends up actually typing the definitions from the Webster Dictionary, and they go poof.
       To me, I get bored with the RP if it's used too often, even go so far as to turn the chat that it's on in-game off so that I don't have to read it.

[DragonGamez]

Orifices... so many wrong ways to use the word... and the roleplay examples made me laugh. xD and 'attic' for head.... I DIED.

I mean, you could actually see one of those and to me it looks like a practical joke.

It's like, there's such thing as writing TOO much... I mean, don't do this for a good rp post:

-sits down and yawns-

A perfectly fine one which in my opinion can be okay if its short because why drag this on could be:

She sat down and yawned, wrapping her tail around her paws and frowning at him...

then there's this

The femana placethed thy undercarnage upon the terrain hairs which painted themselves emerald under her rumpus. She placeted her rumpal carpet upon the inches of hair surface as the tips prickled her banera. She rested her hindeth weightus on her basement, shiftusing the downward weightus uponuth thy exterior predicamentaory bodice coeverage. The femini felaka lifted thy attic upon her orifices and unhinged her lateral exterior to display pillars of pointed tissue and extended thy fuchsia serpent with a slimy exterior from her tubals. Upon relocking the pillared mawus the femmein rotated her orbuses towards thy mateworthy brujo and lowered her orifice skin to produce a displeased expressiona.

Like... this sounds almost like some sick porno. Stop. You can say 'She sat down and yawned' and you'd be a perfectly good writer. You'd also make, a lot, A LOT more sense.

[Bluparrot]

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.

That's why I made this thread in the first place. I got ganged up on. Sweet, sweet revenge.



Funny how the first word in their pack name means "well meaning and kind".

OMG...is that the Benevolent Wolf Pack?! I never knew they could be...this...whatever. XD

[StarrieNova]

I am still not a big fan of Wolf speak. xD

[blueroseknight95]

          I actually had the pleasure of explaining Wolf Speak to someone on Quotev not too long ago. I linked them this post as an explanation. He's my "editor" and he even said: "This 'wolf speak' needs to stop being a thing. Like... now." He's new to the animal RPing world, so... meh.
          Anywho, I'm a huge fan of writing. I mean... I write every day when I get the chance, and still *somehow* manage to get decent grades in class. I love reading long posts in an RP, because it keeps it going. As you would have guessed, I'm a Novella/literate RPer. Scripting is okay, but the RP never really seems to last long. But... like I said in my response on 12/12/14, Wolf Speak tends to suck life out of everything UNLESS the words are used correctly.

[Draco1182]

Even after reading the whole thing I still don't get wolfspeak. I meaning of what words are replaced? Sorry if i'm just saying some think pointless...