Extra Ordinary Comics @lemmy.world Chris @feddit.uk 2 mo. ago

Bear knowledge

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I wonder if people who spelled it as, "sike", apply the spelling to related words. Sikeology or sikeiatrist or sikeotic
- People who spell it "sike" probably aren't intelligent enough to attempt to use those other words.
  
  I'm pretty sure "sike" is how it was often spelled in the 80s and 90s. So maybe they're just "old."
  
  Boo! Vocabulary isn't intelligence, nor is it a proxy for one.
  
  If you think of it, using the abbreviation 'psych' to say 'psyched' and to mean you think you have shocked the interlocutor with an intricate joke, isn't the best use of the word either.
  
  Etymologically it might make more sense as sike because it makes little sense either way, so why pretend?
Wait is that how you spell "sike"? I always assumed it was "psych", like being psyched out.
- Looks like this specific meaning of psych can be spelt sike - but not other definitions!
  
  Tbh I'd never heard of this meaning in either spelling.
  
  Nifty! Thanks.
- "Psych" is the original spelling, but so many kids didn't know that that "sike" became common.
- Looks like ya technically correct. I hate that there's little to no official literature on this, looking anything credible up is a pain.
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/grammar/comments/hm3xpq/sike_vs_psych/#:~:text=Everyone knows of the slang,the mind%2C or the psyche.
- It's definitely psych. Sike is for people who also write should of.
  
  All of the sudden
  
  In the meme-verse, I feel like "sike" is much more common (eg, "say sike right now")
  
  While "psych" is technically correct, the worst kind of correct, my preference would be to spell it "syke." "Psych" and "sike" just don't have enough meme energy to them and could be more easily misinterpreted as meaning something else.
Only works on grizzly/brown bears.
- Black: fight back
  
  Brown: lie down
  
  ...
  
  White: good night
  
  Which of those makes the best porridge?
Aha! I knew it! The bears are who we thought they were, and we let them off the hook.
- NoT aLl BeArS
We Bear Bears 🎶🎵
Named after that guy on Star trek named Siker.

Fwiw, treat a bear like an ND who has other stuff to do, leave them alone. Are you pulling a neckbeard close for a selfie?

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