English language fail!
English language fail!
I hope it's okay to post this because REALLY bad fantasy fiction is getting the better of me.
A few weeks ago someone told me of a fantasy novel where a character learns he's a mancy. That's right a mancy. Not a mancer.. Someone recommended this book to me and in the book they even say Mancy means magick or divination. And I'm like 'But mancer means magick user... The word is mancer.' So every time a character said 'Mancer' I was like *twitch.* I can't remember the title of the novel right now but mancy is in it (it's a longer word), and it was from the late eighties.
Tonight someone came into an RP room I'm involved with on IMVU saying he's a Preternatural. I was like 'You're a supernatural?' And his response was 'No. It's a word from a new book called Soulless. It means someone who can turn into another supernatural creature by touching them.' Umm... That's a shapeshifter. Preternatural is just another word for supernatural. WHY do they insist on raping the English language?!
And to top it all off I RP in there as Bob from The Dresden Files TV series so I'm there as BobTheGhost, this character who is supposed to be an expert on the supernatural, and I have to let this person explain to me why his definition of preternatural is wrong!?? And all the while I'm like *Twitch, that's not what the word means. Twitch.* It's like using the word magick in place of werewolf.
Stephenie Meyers' 'shapeshifters' can ONLY turn into wolves. THAT is a werewolf. Werewolf from man-wolf. It does not mean part man and part wolf. It means man into wolf. And the original folklore had nothing to do with the moon. In fact the earliest werewolf myth goes back to Ancient Greece
When will these Stephenie Meyer Wanna-bes stop RAPING the English language?
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Just to show you what I am up against.
(()) around text implies out of character content.
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DreamsofOld: "How is Harry?" *he asked Bob*
BobTheGhost: Well. Which is in, and of itself, impressive considering how often he puts himself at risk.
DreamsofOld: "He does, I gotta hand it to him though." *he smiled*
SilentDreami: *pulls a picture out of her purse*
BobTheGhost: *Bob looked over at the woman with the picture. He narrowed his pale, aqua eyes.* What is that?
SilentDreami: "Its a photograph..." she replied looking at the young man in the picture, "its a picture of a man who was a classified souless man. who has recently been murdered."
BobTheGhost: *Bob snorted.* Soulless?
SilentDreami: "or the better word a preternatural. someone who can change a werewolf or a vampire by a touch."
BobTheGhost: Preternatural simply means supernatural.
SilentDreami: "considered to be the best type of hunters as well, though there is really no need for them in this day and age." she continued..
BobTheGhost: ((Or is there a new idiotic novel out there raping the English language?))
SilentDreami: ((yes and a typo...I lost my glasses.....))
BobTheGhost: Preterntural does not mean transforming into another species by touch.
BobTheGhost: That's called shapeshifting.
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (dont be such a whale about everything bob)
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (hehehe)
BobTheGhost: Preternatural means preter which is derived from 'beyond' or 'super'
BobTheGhost: And natural... well...
BobTheGhost: ((I read Anne Rice, she uses preternatural after every other sentence))
BobTheGhost: ((I don't think her vampires are suddenly hunting their own kind))
BobTheGhost: ((And magically turning into other creatures))
SilentDreami: "......" she does not say anything ((its from a new novel out called souless a good read))
BobTheGhost: ((Did some idiot confuse preter to mean predator?))
BobTheGhost: ((NO)!)
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (Dont talk shit about Anne Rice she is a very good author)
BobTheGhost: ((I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER read ANY 'good' supernatural novel that misuses The English language so blatantly))
BobTheGhost: ((Toxic, I'm LestatTheWolfKiller's player))
BobTheGhost: ((I wasn't bad mouthing her))
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (meow)
BobTheGhost: (She likes the word preternatural))
SilentDreami: "well they are rebounderes then turners..." she sighs, "I'll be honest I don't know that much except the idiot was murdered and I have to find the murderer...."she glares up at Bob, "Alright.."
DreamsofOld: (I used to like the books they went downhill after Tale of the Body Thief)
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (thats because shes fun like that ; )
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (hehehe)
SilentDreami: ((actually the novel soulless by gail carriger is what the ideal was based off))
SilentDreami: ((sorry))
BobTheGhost: ((ideal?))
BobTheGhost: ((Don't call butt raping English an ideal))
BobTheGhost: ((I'm trying to wrap my mind around how anyone can be STUPID enough to think an alternate word for supernatural can mean SHAPESHFTER))
SilentDreami: ((eheh...^^' yes mam"))
BobTheGhost: ((give me a moment... This is hurting my head...))
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (its not rape if you want its only surprise sex)
BobTheGhost: ((And I need to rant about this on the group Books that Fail over on Live Journal))
SilentDreami: ((I feel royally crushed))
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (i dont)
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (im hyper)
BobTheGhost: ((This is like using the word magick to mean werewolf..))
SilentDreami: (((hmmm probably))
SilentDreami: ((I'm sorry :( ))
BobTheGhost: *Bob rubbed his sinuses.* If I was alive I probably would have died of an anuerysm by now.
BobTheGhost: Open a dictionary to the word Preternatural. What does it say?
SilentDreami: "...I read it Mr.Bob, but thats what the report said, though I think it would be better to call him an unnatural or the touchers as I call them, they take away your supernatural abilities
BobTheGhost: ((*BEATS THE AUTHOR'S HEAD WITH A BRICK*))
BobTheGhost: That is called psychometry.
BobTheGhost: I know it's a big word
BobTheGhost: Which requires reading
SilentDreami: " for example if I was touched I would lose my ability to 'smell' people as long as that person touches me."
SilentDreami: ((I'm sorry.... :'( *goes emo in the cornner*
BobTheGhost: *He seemed to take a slow deep breath.* Learning things about someone and or absorbing their abilities through touch is called psychometry.
BobTheGhost: Whatever world you just stumbled out of...
BobTheGhost: It seems to me they mated their dictionary with a pack mule.
SilentDreami: "hmmm sorry for not knowing Bob of the old sayings..." looks at him
BobTheGhost: Old sayings?
BobTheGhost: There's a novel there on the shelf about psychometry
BobTheGhost: By an author named Stephen King
BobTheGhost: It's called the Dead Zone.
BobTheGhost: It hardly seems that old to me.
BobTheGhost: And a Mrs. Rice uses the term preternatural regularly in her contemporary supernatural fiction.
SilentDreami: "....." does not reply, but grabs a piece of gum, accepting defeat
BobTheGhost: I'm not that antiquated.
I hope it's okay to post this because REALLY bad fantasy fiction is getting the better of me.
A few weeks ago someone told me of a fantasy novel where a character learns he's a mancy. That's right a mancy. Not a mancer.. Someone recommended this book to me and in the book they even say Mancy means magick or divination. And I'm like 'But mancer means magick user... The word is mancer.' So every time a character said 'Mancer' I was like *twitch.* I can't remember the title of the novel right now but mancy is in it (it's a longer word), and it was from the late eighties.
Tonight someone came into an RP room I'm involved with on IMVU saying he's a Preternatural. I was like 'You're a supernatural?' And his response was 'No. It's a word from a new book called Soulless. It means someone who can turn into another supernatural creature by touching them.' Umm... That's a shapeshifter. Preternatural is just another word for supernatural. WHY do they insist on raping the English language?!
And to top it all off I RP in there as Bob from The Dresden Files TV series so I'm there as BobTheGhost, this character who is supposed to be an expert on the supernatural, and I have to let this person explain to me why his definition of preternatural is wrong!?? And all the while I'm like *Twitch, that's not what the word means. Twitch.* It's like using the word magick in place of werewolf.
Stephenie Meyers' 'shapeshifters' can ONLY turn into wolves. THAT is a werewolf. Werewolf from man-wolf. It does not mean part man and part wolf. It means man into wolf. And the original folklore had nothing to do with the moon. In fact the earliest werewolf myth goes back to Ancient Greece
When will these Stephenie Meyer Wanna-bes stop RAPING the English language?
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Just to show you what I am up against.
(()) around text implies out of character content.
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DreamsofOld: "How is Harry?" *he asked Bob*
BobTheGhost: Well. Which is in, and of itself, impressive considering how often he puts himself at risk.
DreamsofOld: "He does, I gotta hand it to him though." *he smiled*
SilentDreami: *pulls a picture out of her purse*
BobTheGhost: *Bob looked over at the woman with the picture. He narrowed his pale, aqua eyes.* What is that?
SilentDreami: "Its a photograph..." she replied looking at the young man in the picture, "its a picture of a man who was a classified souless man. who has recently been murdered."
BobTheGhost: *Bob snorted.* Soulless?
SilentDreami: "or the better word a preternatural. someone who can change a werewolf or a vampire by a touch."
BobTheGhost: Preternatural simply means supernatural.
SilentDreami: "considered to be the best type of hunters as well, though there is really no need for them in this day and age." she continued..
BobTheGhost: ((Or is there a new idiotic novel out there raping the English language?))
SilentDreami: ((yes and a typo...I lost my glasses.....))
BobTheGhost: Preterntural does not mean transforming into another species by touch.
BobTheGhost: That's called shapeshifting.
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (dont be such a whale about everything bob)
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (hehehe)
BobTheGhost: Preternatural means preter which is derived from 'beyond' or 'super'
BobTheGhost: And natural... well...
BobTheGhost: ((I read Anne Rice, she uses preternatural after every other sentence))
BobTheGhost: ((I don't think her vampires are suddenly hunting their own kind))
BobTheGhost: ((And magically turning into other creatures))
SilentDreami: "......" she does not say anything ((its from a new novel out called souless a good read))
BobTheGhost: ((Did some idiot confuse preter to mean predator?))
BobTheGhost: ((NO)!)
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (Dont talk shit about Anne Rice she is a very good author)
BobTheGhost: ((I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER read ANY 'good' supernatural novel that misuses The English language so blatantly))
BobTheGhost: ((Toxic, I'm LestatTheWolfKiller's player))
BobTheGhost: ((I wasn't bad mouthing her))
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (meow)
BobTheGhost: (She likes the word preternatural))
SilentDreami: "well they are rebounderes then turners..." she sighs, "I'll be honest I don't know that much except the idiot was murdered and I have to find the murderer...."she glares up at Bob, "Alright.."
DreamsofOld: (I used to like the books they went downhill after Tale of the Body Thief)
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (thats because shes fun like that ; )
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (hehehe)
SilentDreami: ((actually the novel soulless by gail carriger is what the ideal was based off))
SilentDreami: ((sorry))
BobTheGhost: ((ideal?))
BobTheGhost: ((Don't call butt raping English an ideal))
BobTheGhost: ((I'm trying to wrap my mind around how anyone can be STUPID enough to think an alternate word for supernatural can mean SHAPESHFTER))
SilentDreami: ((eheh...^^' yes mam"))
BobTheGhost: ((give me a moment... This is hurting my head...))
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (its not rape if you want its only surprise sex)
BobTheGhost: ((And I need to rant about this on the group Books that Fail over on Live Journal))
SilentDreami: ((I feel royally crushed))
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (i dont)
Guest_MissToxicGypsy: (im hyper)
BobTheGhost: ((This is like using the word magick to mean werewolf..))
SilentDreami: (((hmmm probably))
SilentDreami: ((I'm sorry :( ))
BobTheGhost: *Bob rubbed his sinuses.* If I was alive I probably would have died of an anuerysm by now.
BobTheGhost: Open a dictionary to the word Preternatural. What does it say?
SilentDreami: "...I read it Mr.Bob, but thats what the report said, though I think it would be better to call him an unnatural or the touchers as I call them, they take away your supernatural abilities
BobTheGhost: ((*BEATS THE AUTHOR'S HEAD WITH A BRICK*))
BobTheGhost: That is called psychometry.
BobTheGhost: I know it's a big word
BobTheGhost: Which requires reading
SilentDreami: " for example if I was touched I would lose my ability to 'smell' people as long as that person touches me."
SilentDreami: ((I'm sorry.... :'( *goes emo in the cornner*
BobTheGhost: *He seemed to take a slow deep breath.* Learning things about someone and or absorbing their abilities through touch is called psychometry.
BobTheGhost: Whatever world you just stumbled out of...
BobTheGhost: It seems to me they mated their dictionary with a pack mule.
SilentDreami: "hmmm sorry for not knowing Bob of the old sayings..." looks at him
BobTheGhost: Old sayings?
BobTheGhost: There's a novel there on the shelf about psychometry
BobTheGhost: By an author named Stephen King
BobTheGhost: It's called the Dead Zone.
BobTheGhost: It hardly seems that old to me.
BobTheGhost: And a Mrs. Rice uses the term preternatural regularly in her contemporary supernatural fiction.
SilentDreami: "....." does not reply, but grabs a piece of gum, accepting defeat
BobTheGhost: I'm not that antiquated.