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Thanks to

chronarchy for reminding me that I've been meaning to rant for a while.

This may result in some unpopular responses and other such consequences from a certain sector of my readership...if so, oh well.

But let me just say, i'm kinda sick of seeing "Bright blessings" everywhere and hearing/seeing "merry meet" and merry part"

Amongst some people it seems as though, if you don't use them your membership to Ye Olde Secret Magyckale Paganne Clubbe is revoked or something. Use some more original words once in a while to say hello, good-bye and wish people well.

Oh, and the whole spelling "magic" with a "k" to distinguish um..."magick" from prestidigitation. Why? If you're going to do that, why not find an alternate spelling of "path" to distinguist spiritual path from a path in the woods or a bike path? I would get it if it was another form of the word or somethign, but I looked up an etymology and nowhere did "magick" appear.

Really.

Okay...so let me just give a brief explaination of my idea of magic...and by magic i mean what others may so insistently tack an extra letter onto:

Magic just is...stuff, life, everything. This would be one reason...the biggest reason, really....that I feel no need to adopt a special magical name...(the other reason being...hey! The Gods know who I am. They knew who I was before I knew who they are. No need for another name for that specific purpose. Though, for the sake of jest, I shall now reassume my Olde Magyckal Namme of Lady Blithering Moondrivel.) And one glaring reason that I don't see the need to apend a perfectly good word.

So everything is magic, magic is everything, prestidigitation is therefore magic and I really am just enjoying copious use of the word "prestidigitation"

But even if you don't take such a view of magic as I do...consider the fact that in the English language, many many many many^n words have multiple meanings without having to be spelled differently. It's a common language thing.

Besides..."magic" is aesthetically more pleasing to the eye and inside my brain than "magick" and that might be what bugs me most of all. "Magick" is hard and sharp and rough- careful you don't get hurt on the magick! Whereas magic is...well, magic. "Magick" really loses something. It detracts from the wonder and mystery of the word. I can't say "magick" in the same way I can say "magic" it just doesn't come out right. "-ck" is much harder of a sound than "-c" inside my brain, making the end of the word sound much like "crack"..."crack" is a hard-sounding word.

So my point = Magic > Magick

*Lady Blithering Moondrivel hops off of soapbox and exists stage left*

PS: Tangerine. Smells like Christmas, tastes like citrus.