Aha! I knew it! The bears are who we thought they were, and we let them off the hook.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
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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.
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?
You don't seem to know what you're talking about
Boo! Vocabulary isn't intelligence, nor is it a proxy for one.
I'm pretty sure "sike" is how it was often spelled in the 80s and 90s. So maybe they're just "old."
I'm old; it wasn't.
I'm old, too, and it absolutely was because I've never once seen it spelled "psych."
Perhaps you need to read more
I could say the same, but perhaps you need to get out more. It would do wonders for your personality.
Wait is that how you spell "sike"? I always assumed it was "psych", like being psyched out.
"Psych" is the original spelling, but so many kids didn't know that that "sike" became common.
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.
It's definitely psych. Sike is for people who also write should of.
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.
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.
tseyech
In the meme-verse, I feel like "sike" is much more common (eg, "say sike right now")
All of the sudden
Looks like ya technically correct. I hate that there's little to no official literature on this, looking anything credible up is a pain.
Only works on grizzly/brown bears.
Black: fight back
Brown: lie down
...
White: good night