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« on: November 29, 2004, 05:03:04 pm » |
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So, I was online, and my friend Rob IM's me with this....
Rob: my civ teacher said 'savage' like 5 times in the span of like 2 minutes today
Rob: i just started laughing in class
Mike: omg
Rob: and everyone looked at me like what the fuck is his problem
That got me to think, just how often do I hear magic card names in my everyday life. Later that day, I'm in the music dept at school, and I hear my Theory teacher saying 'tinker' and 'impulse' etc....
So just how often does everyone hear magic card names in non-magic related conversations?
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« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2004, 05:46:22 pm » |
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I used Jokelhaups in a non-magic conversation once.
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« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2004, 06:14:55 pm » |
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So just how often does everyone hear magic card names in non-magic related conversations? A lot. Especially the generic words. Matter of fact, it happens regularly that I think of the magic card before the word actually 'clicks'. Like at work, we have a brainstorm booth. I can't even walk by it without thinking of fetchland. |
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2004, 03:51:41 am » |
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It definately happens a lot especially if I am standing around a bunch of my friends that are magic players. Sometimes it'll be a head turner especially if I am hanging out with Carl and Liz and we all start laughing. Another aspect of it is if you see magic cards enough you can spell strange words that normal people would have a hard time dealing with, plus it always helps with scrabble "Zealot", "Morph".
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2004, 05:50:29 am » |
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One time during Jeapordy the answer was something about a hole in the ground and something with a volcano. The Question was What is a Caldera? I got it right because of Magic! Words tend to stick out more and I catch them all the time now like cards that are named after small catch phrases like Mind over Matter, Ashes to Ashes...
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« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2004, 10:46:18 am » |
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Magic names got me through the vocabulary part of a few tests in high school. Benevolent (benefactor), Auspicious (ancestor), and a few others just by thinking of the card and what it did.
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« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2004, 10:54:31 am » |
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Yes, while I tend to attribute my command of the English language to watching Transformers episodes and subscribing to http://www.wordsmith.org, I believe the more unusual magic card names have had a positive influence on my vocabulary. |
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<j_orlove> the half that tells me how to live my life
<j_orlove> but not the half that tells me how others should live theirs
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« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2004, 12:35:03 pm » |
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Me and my friend have a competition every week during class. We try to have the professor say the "word of the week" during the class, using the exact phrase. Some words have included goblin bowling team, arcbound ravanger and mox diamond.
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« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2004, 12:55:56 pm » |
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"Fumarole" is a great word to say.
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« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2004, 11:58:09 am » |
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I have an odd tendency to say words relating to magic in basic speech when they have no business being there... For example in school the other day I asked the kid sitting next to me for a piece of paper, and while he was checking his binder to see if he had any left I said, "Well does it resolve?" ... The kid gave me a funny look handed me a piece of paper, and i felt like an idiot... Knowing me i was probably mad at myself for not asking during my upkeep (aka before class).
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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2004, 02:07:54 pm » |
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Oh man MTG has destroyed my literary prominence. There are so many magic cards with good vocabilary words on them, that it is pretty much a constant succession of cards in my mind as I read signs or papers or listen to people talk.
There are a lot of words that have been permanently associated with other words or cards. Take:
ravenous
force
library
duress
disk
crucible
workshop
acacademy
There are other words that don't even make sense IRL when you see them.
cantrip
mulligan
tutor
I used to have a classmate who constantly said "pillage" whenever he got something good or did something cool. It made me think of the card so much that I eventually just gave him a pillage (7th).
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« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2004, 08:22:29 pm » |
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I always want to use magic-speak in the middle of an essay for my lit/lang class. For example "In this passage Hawthorne unveils the secret tech he has built up for the entire novel. Dimmesdale's ascent of the scaffold with Hester and Pearl Force of Will's Chillingworth's Mind Twist, with revelation of the minister's sin costing him his life (and probably a blue card). Then the reader discovers in the epilogue that it was actually a Mana Drain, as Pearl mises Chillingworth's property in his will.
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« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2004, 06:29:11 pm » |
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I think this is one of the reason why quitting is so hard. You just can't away from it, ever.
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« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2004, 07:53:27 pm » |
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I always want to use magic-speak in the middle of an essay for my lit/lang class. For example "In this passage Hawthorne unveils the secret tech he has built up for the entire novel. Dimmesdale's ascent of the scaffold with Hester and Pearl Force of Will's Chillingworth's Mind Twist, as revelation of his sin costs him his life (and probably a blue card). Then the reader discovers in the epilogue that it was actually a Mana Drain, as Pearl mises Chillingworth's property in his will. That paragraph had me crying. Thanks for the laugh. The only change I would make is to insert "yawgmoths' befor will.  |
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« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2004, 06:14:09 am » |
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I owe so much of my college scholarship to Magic vocabulary. The SAT was simply packed with words from Magic cards. The list of words to study in my SAT prep book had over 200 pertaining to Magic.
"I'm Matt Kent and I saved $30,000 a year, thanks to Magic: The Gathering!"
That'll be my testimonial in the MTG academic aid commercial.
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« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2004, 06:55:02 am » |
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"I'm Matt Kent and I saved $30,000 a year, thanks to Magic: The Gathering!"
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« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2004, 07:47:55 am » |
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Yes, MAgic is alive and well in my Vocabulary. I even got 2 non magic players saying "Mise". So awsome
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