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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

I wonder if people who spelled it as, "sike", apply the spelling to related words. Sikeology or sikeiatrist or sikeotic

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Wait is that how you spell "sike"? I always assumed it was "psych", like being psyched out.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nifty! Thanks.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

"Psych" is the original spelling, but so many kids didn't know that that "sike" became common.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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%20knows%20of%20the%20slang,the%20mind%2C%20or%20the%20psyche.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's definitely psych. Sike is for people who also write should of.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

All of the sudden

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

In the meme-verse, I feel like "sike" is much more common (eg, "say sike right now")

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Having lived through that era as the slang making demographic, I would say that "sike" or "syke" is specific to the context of having just said something to fool someone. "Dude you want my bike? You can have it." "Really?" "Sike!" See also the obnoxious drawn out "NOOOOT" you'd get at the time.

You would still use "psych" in terms of psyching up a team, psyching out an opponent, etc.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You are 100% correct.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd just spell it "ough".

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Only works on grizzly/brown bears.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Black: fight back

Brown: lie down

...

White: good night

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Which of those makes the best porridge?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Aha! I knew it! The bears are who we thought they were, and we let them off the hook.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

NoT aLl BeArS

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We Bear Bears 🎶🎵

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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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