English, not "wolfspeak."

[ZombieKitteh]

I don't truely understand what you're asking about or trying to address. Asking why it's called wolf-speak is like asking why we peg people as literate, semi-literate, advance- or why do we call certain characters in a roleplay or story a Mary-sue?

It's already been said, but you're not even using 'wolf-speak' in your examples. I'd call those posts literate, short literate posts mind you.

In reality any animal roleplayer can use 'wolf-speak', doesn't matter what the character is. If you're a lion and you still call your eyes orbs and your tail a tassel then I'm still going to laugh and call you out for it. Msot people don't realize that, hey yes you can use these terms in other roleplays asides from wolves. I have seen it and in my own personal opinion it makes you look iliterate no matter how you do it. It has nothing to do with being 'creative' or artistic, it just makes you appear iliterate.

I was in a rolepaly one time where someone had flicked a pebble at my character with their tail. In thir post they said some really odd word for tail.. so I Google'ed it. And the rough definition was gravy. They, flicked a pebble at me. With gravy.

Off of Feral-Heart or when not dealing with wolf roleplayers who do it, you call them elitists. So I suppose that'd be the round-a-bout term for everyone. Wolf-speak is just what people most normally know it by because it's more frequent in wolf roleplays. That's what me and people I've roleplayed in the past has refereed them to. Elitists and elite-speak.

Its not refereed to as "wolf-speak" because wolf-characters /only/ use it. Anyone can use "wolf-speak" it was just dubbed /wolf/ speak over anything else because it originated from the game "WolfQuest". In theory, the way its used, we could call it "Chickenspeak" if we wanted but "Chicken" was'nt in the title of the game most believe it to have originated from. The name of the phrase used to describe it isn't relevant to how or who by it is used. But I agree, in any case, no matter what you call it, its still incorrect/not proper grammar usage.

Anyway for those of you claiming it brings science into a RP, let me  point out that most of the terms used "Pillars, tassle, ivories, etc" are not scientific terms and the few scientific terms that ARE used are used incorrectly most of the time.

I don't understand what you're trying to say but prove my point? o-o
"In reality any animal roleplayer can use 'wolf-speak', doesn't matter what the character is."

Honestly how do you know Wolfquest is where it originated? I've seen some terms used far before Wolf Quest was even out on games like Furcadia and it was still called 'wolf-speak' back then

[Silvertide]

Yes, I don't think it originated from WolfQuest either because I've RPed with people unrelated to WolfQuest who don't even know what wolf speak is and they think it is literate RP.
But we're getting off topic here. I think what the person who started this post is trying to point out is that just because you call a certain way of writing something else doesn't mean it isn't English. That is what I got out of this, even though I think it is quite obvious even wolf speak is English.

[Vespian]

Ehheh, thanks for posting this brother.
-Noogies your floofy head.- +floof.

[darkknight]

Yes, I don't think it originated from WolfQuest either because I've RPed with people unrelated to WolfQuest who don't even know what wolf speak is and they think it is literate RP.
But we're getting off topic here. I think what the person who started this post is trying to point out is that just because you call a certain way of writing something else doesn't mean it isn't English. That is what I got out of this, even though I think it is quite obvious even wolf speak is English.

This is exactly my point, Silvertide. This is why I said, it's simple English. Like I stated before, if "wolfspeak" was a completely different langauge on its own, like snake-tongue, then it would make sense why we would want to learn it. Other than that, you're learning English. Call it what you want, catspeak, cow-tongue, it's still just English.

[DancingWithDeath]

I would like to meet the one who invented wolfspeak and just slap them!

[darkknight]

I would like to meet the one who invented wolfspeak and just slap them!

-Hands Mayah a white glove-   

[Wizardmymom]

I would like to meet the one who invented wolfspeak and just slap them!

Well, no one really INVENTED wolf speak.
It came from WolfQuest, as I'm sure if listed 200000 times above this post.
WQ has a VERY strict word limit.
I mean really, you can't even say Girl, Boy, Female, or Male.

So, people who came from WQ to FH most likely started carrying those words over, because that's how they learned to RP.
I came from WQ, and I've known people from WQ in FH who didn't do this, but for some people that's the way it is.




Who knows why, but that's just how it happened.

[DancingWithDeath]

Lol srry.