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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #250 on: January 25, 2014, 05:22:51 pm »
Psst, can we members solve this ourselves, for once? c:
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No, there is no wrong way to roleplay, roleplay is just basically taking a role of a fictional character. The only wrong way to roleplay if you take the role as a non-fictional person, animal, etc., and that's just weird. But, wolfspeak is like a try-hard version of literate roleplay. Using gibberish doesn't make you smarter and better at roleplaying, it makes you looking like you have a thesaurus shoved up your end. That's all.


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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #251 on: January 25, 2014, 05:44:12 pm »
Kelsey - Thank you. And yes, there's no reason to just up and call a mod over what trivial things have popped up.

Rii - So what if this thread is 27 pages long? I've seen threads on forums that had virtually no topic last well past one hundred. The length of the thread doesn't mean much, other than people are still responding. And since we're just talking, who cares? XD There's not a page limit here.

Back on topic; yes, Wolfspeak is a style of roleplaying. It's not one I like or agree with, but again: I hate the style, not the people who do it (and again, I only hate people who are openly rude, arrogant, insulting, etc.). I do wonder where it came from, though. Its actual origin could be interesting and amusing to find out. If anyone knows that, I'd love to hear it. :3 I think they still use it on Furcadia in some dreams, if I remember right.
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #252 on: January 28, 2014, 03:17:27 pm »
If you guys wanna hear the story of were it came from, i'd be glad to tell you what I know.
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #253 on: January 29, 2014, 06:02:13 am »
I'm very interested in hearing this, whitewolf. :3
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #254 on: January 29, 2014, 11:06:12 pm »
Honestly, I think it's easier just to use normal words instead of that complicated stuff. Don't get me wrong, I have a vast vocabulary, and I'll admit that I love showing it off, but it's just easier to type eyes, instead of 'optics'. People who speak/type this way just make themselves look foolish. That's just my opinion, and I do not mean offence on any players who do use this in their role plays.:) I'm just stating my opinion.

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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #255 on: January 30, 2014, 06:33:29 pm »
I guess I can explain it. As far as i'm aware, wolfspeak was came up waaaay back. I can't remember the name of that game for the life of me. But it's older than Furcadia. It spread to Furcadia, where it got a few followers. Then when WolfQuest came out, people saw it as a way around chat blocks, so they used it. As people moved from WolfQuest here, they brought wolfspeak with 'em. I use to know the name of the person who invented it, but I forgot that a while back.
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #256 on: February 03, 2014, 07:05:14 am »
Haha I only knew that banner meant flag and what not but then I started hearing role-players say "Her banner was raised high in defence" etc. So one day all I heard was the word banner and I whispered my acquaintance asking what does banner mean (Yes. i was that confused) and she replied saying tail <.< so at least now I no not to use the word banner as reference to my tail :D

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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #257 on: February 04, 2014, 02:00:52 am »
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Her banner was raised high in defence

I just got this funny mental image of two wolves being angry at each other and holding out flags representing their packs in defensive martial arts stances. XD
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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #258 on: February 04, 2014, 04:19:23 am »
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Her banner was raised high in defence

I just got this funny mental image of two wolves being angry at each other and holding out flags representing their packs in defensive martial arts stances. XD

I got the image of a wolf waving a white surrender flag.

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Re: A guide to wolfspeak and why you shouldn't use it
« Reply #259 on: February 05, 2014, 02:42:02 am »
LOL! That animation is perfect! XD
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