Some people differentiate between stage magic and real magick through adding a "k" to the end of the latter. Do you think this is a practice to be condoned by civilized people?
Yes
8(24.2%)
No
25(75.8%)
When I see the word "magick" in a piece of fiction, I:
immediately reject the story due to profound revulsion.
9(23.7%)
am moderately bothered, but not enough to stop reading.
17(44.7%)
am not bothered.
6(15.8%)
feel pleased by that choice.
1(2.6%)
squee in my joy that someone has gotten the spelling right.
0(0.0%)
something else that by clicking this option I am bound to explain in comments.
5(13.2%)
Comments
1) A role-playing gamer, specifically a fan of World of Darkness gaming from the 1990s/early 2000s. (a.k.a. Mage, Vampire the Masquerade, etc)
2) A Wiccan, or devotee of other 'new age' religion.
I'd be moderately surprised if the answer was neither of the above. :D (Especially if it came up in your slush reading. :)
The Magick K, to me, is on a par with corporate duckspeak. As an example: "Talk", as a verb, has a well-established definition of two or more people verbally communicating to exchange information. Why, then, do duckspeakers insist on "dialoging"?
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To take this back to the realm of fiction. A few months ago, I read a post by an agent who specializes in Spec Fic decrying the practice where authors feel compelled to give their writing that special feel by randomly replacing the vowels in certain words with "y". e.g. Electryc, Chymical or Chemicyl, Magickyl, etc.
http://onyxhawke.livejournal.com/42353.html
And yeah, I am annoyed by it but tend to ignore it, until additional sins start to pile up.
If further reading made it clear that the author had no knowledge of this tradition, I'd probably dismiss the work as under-researched.
Just not much patience for the cutesy "K" variant.
Besides, stage magic is real magic, and I DON'T want to know how it's done, because it's MAGIC!
Just ask