If DD created an actual "manual" like JK. Rowling created fantastic beasts and where to find them, it would solve all our problems. on the other hand, most science textbooks and other books of that ilk contain helpful information to create your own manual

Pirateluvrxx3: DAI! You probablydon't know the rules yet, so I won'tcomment on the fact that it's a one liner, but whoa!?!?! You don't believe in magic?!?!? Are you sure you don't?, cause 'Wizardry doesn't live in the unwilling heart.' Alot of people in this forum really believe, or want to, that magic is real, and a lot of people like to dream and imagine, and...sorry, I'm just getting overworked about this, because it is a touchy subject in my family. My dad doesn't believe, and thinks it's sacreligious, my mom just nods her head and smiles politely, and my sister starts trying to get all technical about it. NO ONE IN MY FAMILY BELIEVES IN MAGIC, so please, just let me dream, kay? (sorry for the mellow dramatics, and welcome, again)

Emi: I do that alot too, but instead of saying, 'in SYWTBAW, Nita said this', I more or less just say that quote, and then continue speaking the rest of the page, usually unintentionally. When I do that my friends understand that it's from a book, and just let me ramble.

KK: rock on Irish Wizards! If they can do wizardry without manuals, why can't we?

Onyx: I'm terrified. Plain and simple. I don't know how safe that really is, creating a wizard's manual, when we're (mostly) nonmagical ourselves. Kinda scary, but still incredibly cool, and goodluck. Maybe you and dylan could put your ideas together, as he seems to have some ideas himself.

Dylan: Daistiho and welcome!

Ummm...I've run out of things to say soo...ummm...daistiho...and Happy (almost) Easter, if you celebrate it.

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Originally posted by Memeki'sGlede:
If DD created an actual "manual" like JK. Rowling created fantastic beasts and where to find them, it would solve all our problems.

Well, there's always the Errantry Concordance, to which DD adds information when it occurs to her.

But the big difficulty in creating a real Manual would be that she'd then have to create the Speech. And she ain't gonna do that. She gave several reasons in a post (that's now in the archived section). Back in Nov. 2002, MacGreine asked if someone came up with characters/grammar of the Speech would she accept it? This was her reply:

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Uh, no.

First of all, if anyone's going to invent the Speech, it's going to be me. But I'm not going to do it. A number of reasons:

(a) No made-up language would ever "sound" right...like the real thing. The idea of the Speech is that when you hear it, you know what you're hearing, in your bones... and nothing you, or I, or anyone else makes up, is going to have quite that sound.

(b) The minute I start writing words in some made-up version of the Speech, people are going to try using them. You know they will. And they're going to be disappointed. I can't have that.

(c) There are also people out there who would take the appearance of "magic words" and "spells" in these books as evidence that the books were some kind of trap set by, uh, a figure with horns and a funny tail frequently mistaken for the Lone Power. I refuse to give them any ammunition to work with.

(d) And I think the Speech sounds better if you make up for yourself what it sounds like, in your own head. It's much more effective than anything I could make up.

Just FYI, I'd like to repeat: I can't find the Manual. Mine stubbornly refuses to be anything but this kids' book called So You Want To Be a Wizard.

i am creating my own manual but for now Im going to go crazy with thisi know the speech!!!!!!!
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you would think that scince my names onyx paradox pranxtor you wuold think Im kidding,but scince my names general tony judge turner washington I am not!!!!!!!!!!!.though the pranxtor side is really getting to me, I'll give you some steps to figuring it out:1:go to errantry wiki 2:click on the great golem of prague 3:read the first 3 paragraphs,4:then think ,there is a word thats in the speech that stands for the word"truth" 5lease please please tell me that Im the ruler of the worlds after[their is a faster way to find out what the speech is and more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just search all the forums}
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forget it,Ill tell you here ,and I am so supprised that the seniors didnt know this{no disrespect kli6,but my fluency in the speech is infact better than my english,thank you very much!}its in hebrew.listen,the hebrews believed that everything that is here was created by god,who they commonly call,"the one',and everything was created from his talking so everything understands it,as for the book of night with moon,remember what carl said about it,"it decribes every thing....its in the speech' and that its commonly called th light book,theres a book called the book yetzirah which describes every thing, and is sorta like a bible,that tells us that th one is the universe,and it also tells us ofthe ten numbers who are called the sefirot ,and through them intelligence percieves the worlds existance and the divine action,my book says that"for them there is no end,in the future inthe past in the presnt,nor good or bad",as for the lone power,his name might be raziel,angel of evil this book is filled with strange names.....formed apon known models such as gabriel,micheal,rapiel and others.dont try to figure out what dai stiho means cause its in notarikons method of hebrew{for more information find a book called"a history of magic and the occult by kurt seligmann,or just wait for my next post!!!!!!!!!!!!
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the sefirots names are crown,wisdom,intelligence,goodness ,power,glory,victory,honour,fuondation, and kingdom also magnifigence,and faer.and plus remember when nitas dad thought it was arabic?well hebrew looks arabic to a certian extent,plus hebrew was used by back-in-the day wizards,in magic circles, an example is:ararita which indowes theowner with riddle answer,wak I know but ....
[edited again to consolidate quadruple-post. --gsf]

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