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Love his comics but the "sike" kills me
โChalmers, is that you?โ
Bone apple tea, right?
Ancient GenX slang for "just kidding". Zoomers, don't let GenX make fun of you for "rizz" or whatever. They were doing shit like that long before you were born.
Huh? It's the incorrect spelling
Psych is a different word
No it isn't lol
So I'm actually right but for the wrong reasons, a sike is a small stream.
https://grammarhow.com/psych-or-sike/
Yeah, to psych someone out was to mentally trick them. Was going to say Gen x made a TV show called Psych, but I never watched it so I'm not sure that the name corelates here
The show is fantastic
I've heard it both ways.
Does it hold up? Maybe I'll try it out this weekend
Oddly enough I don't think he was talking about a stream in this comic
Sike is on dictionary.com so its really up to the individual if "sike" or "psych" is the correct spelling
That's dictionary.Com politely saying that enough people misspell it that they'll felt compelled to put it here. If your definition points to the real spelling, it's not really "up to the individual" which is the correct one.
That's dictionary.com pointing out that it is now in common enoudh use to be a word. English isn't French, we don't have a language police that comes to chop off your head if you use a newer spelling, and I don't think we should either. Sike is correct now.