Vocalful

[milleniumgypsy]

So, is vocalful a word? I don't think it is. I remember a person on the neoboards created a basic yellow korbat with this name, and traded this 'real word!!!' for a beautifully named faerie draik. That's what, a 13 million np pet? I looked up the word, but I can't find it anywhere. So... with the 'real word' craze, this one person blindly offered on a basically worthless pet. Because I really don't think it's a real word, which kind of defeats the purpose. Especially since it sounds silly, IMO. I had forgotten about it, but something made me remember and I looked up the pet. I had remembered seeing on it's lookup that it was going to be painted or morphed or something, with a thank you to the previous owner for allowing her to have the honor of having this pet, or some such nonsense. I wish I could remember the name of the person who traded. Oh well. The pet is now on a 2 week old account, with a sarcastic 'Yay I'm a neo celeb' lookup. The pet itself is not painted and doesn't have a lookup, petpet, background, nothing.

I have to wonder if the person realized that the name isn't a real word, and perhaps was getting neomails from people saying as much. I'm not really into this whole 'real word' pet name thing, with a couple exceptions. Exceptions being real words that you could think to name a pet (like Magic or Sparkles or SOMETHING. I'm not going to name my dog Tent or Leg, why the hell would I want to trade some gorgeous/UC/expensive pet for your basic pet named Leg? Hmmm?) But if she realized she'd been had, she probably wouldn't want to look at the pet either. I know I wouldn't, so I would have gotten rid of it. Or maybe she was just getting too much attention.

Is this anything important? Not really. If it's not a real word though, the girl got scammed, which sucks. Enough people were telling her that it wasn't real though, but a lot of people were defending it. I can't find anything saying it's an actual word, though I suppose it could be an obscure word. Which would be neat, but still not what this person was hoping for.

Yeah, this post is kind of pointless. But I bothered to write it, so I'm going to post it. Plus, if anyone could confirm or deny vocalful as a word, it would satisfy my curiosity.

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Comments

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the person who traded away a draik was basically a moron. Quite aside from the fact that vocalful isn't a word, real word names are worthless. Unless it's a specific word you've always wanted then the fact that it's a real word means nothing. You could just, you know, go out and create a pet with another real word name if that's what really matters. There are a million words in English (and that's before you factor in the possibility of real word names from other languages). I'm sure you can find one.

And I would put money on vocalful not being a word. Although as usual my understanding of the way our language works is based on experience rather than education, surely the suffix -ful must come after a noun, together forming an adjective. Vocal is already an adjective. You'd be looking at voiceful if you want the -ful pattern - except voiceful isn't a word, on account that we have vocal to have that meaning ;0)

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was a word when I saw it, but I thought perhaps it was something obscure. But what you said made sense (why didn't I think of that argument? lol)

And even if it -was- a real word, I still think it's stupid. Unless like you said, it's a word you really wanted. There are few pets that I would trade something awesome for. Willow or Gandalf are two names that I would want. But those are real names, not words.

I spent too much time in Pound chat so that I could get my maraquan draik (for my robot draik). But in the end it was worth the annoyance. lol :P