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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] clay_pidgin 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] clay_pidgin 3 points 3 months ago

Nifty! Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

All of the sudden

[–] cocobean 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] captain_aggravated 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 3 months ago

You are 100% correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

tseyech

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'd just spell it "ough".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only works on grizzly/brown bears.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Black: fight back

Brown: lie down

...

White: good night

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which of those makes the best porridge?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

NoT aLl BeArS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

We Bear Bears 🎶🎵

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months 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?