posted June 19, 2008 12:48 PM         

Add all you want if that is your way , but Please do not "HIDE" your added letters.

Sadly I have also seen even the many so called "word masters/smiths/professionals"
out on the web making many errors or hiding their errors!
Shame on them!

If letters that are not found within the "source" word, name, date, etcetera;
are added to a Lexigram, or letters deleted which are found within the "source"...
The resulting creation becomes a Lexigram "based" reading;
NOT a true Lexigram or a Pure-Lexigram©
Taking or finding Anagrams and stringing them together is a form of simple Lexigramming,
only in that All Anagrams are also Lexigrams.
However All Lexigrams are NOT Anagrams.
True Lexigramming does not use Anagramming as their base.

I too could go off and create long long mystical sounding Lexigrams EASILY in A SHORT time if I resorted to adding letters willy nilly too! But that would not be true lexigramming and I have ethics and the integrity not to pad my Lexigrams with letters not found in the phrase etcetera I am Lexigramming, just to appear prolific and long winded to show off by "hiding" added letters and words!

It is the hiding of added letters I find offensive and sneaky, not the adding of letters you do not have, the having the audacity to call it a Lexigram.

So go ahead and ADD ALL YOU WANT BUT PLEASE BE HONEST AND DO NOT HIDE THE ADDED LETTERS!

AND DO NOT CALL IT A LEXIGRAM BECAUSE IT IS NOT IF YOU ADD LETTERS AND WORDS, HIDDEN OR SET OFF!

I am quite willing to help anyone find their errors and help them fix them!
Or at least show them which letters need put in brackets.
Why would anyone desire to hide their added letters other than to show off?
The casual error here and there I understand can accidentally happen. But there are folks who are knowingly hiding their added letters!
That is not honest nor ethical.
Nor is it as Linda said to do. But she hid letters too whether intentionally or accidentally, breaking even her own rules. http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum8/HTML/001709.html
I am willing to help and fix errors and teach.
And I can back up what I say.

The reasons I push so hard for accuracy when Lexigramming; is that while many folks consider it just an idle past time, a game, just for fun.....
There are many who do not think of a Lexigram, created for them, as simply for entertainment purposes.
For those who believe a Lexigram can reveal secrets, and can give them insight into relationships or themselves, or possibly answer other questions they have;

We owe it to them, to take our Lexigramming seriously and not try to impress them by adding information not actually there! That is very unethical!.

Lexigramming is an old form of Divination, and can be, an adjunct to a psychic, or mediumnistic reading. I feel Lexigramming should be treated with the same respect as Astrology or Numerology.
But I also wish to caution;

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Never base your important life decisions on any form of Divination, be it Lexigramming, Anagramming, Astrology, and so forth. These things can assist in your decisions, but ultimately one should make decisions based on logic and common sense.

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Additionally, using a Lexigram checker and a spell checker will allow anyone to do actual Lexigramming and not simply Lexigram based readings.
When words/letters are added the resulting creation is not a true Lexigram and the adding can radically affect the meaning and accuracy.

And of course one of the better generators out there can help anyone double check that they have not added any not allowed words.
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum8/HTML/001842.html

Linda said find ALL the words you can!
She said that before anagram generators were invented!
Even she indicated that it is once one has the words, THAT IS WHEN THE MAGIC BEGINS!

Cheating is as several so called professional Lexigrammers do...
taking anagrams or bits of anagrams from an anagram generator and stringing them together. While it results in a Lexigram, it is anagram based and not created letter by letter or word by word naturally.
That stringing together anagrams and partial anagrams gleaned from generators, is in my opinion, shoddy, lazy, poor Lexigramming.
I do not see a problem with the acquiring of one's words by any means, be it a list generator of simply the words, as an anagram generator also does separate from the silly anagram generator feature, or the use of dictionaries, or paper and pen and intuition. The trouble comes into play when one is so vain, and or stubborn to believe their personal vocabulary is actually that extensive enough to do a Lexigram effort justice.

posted June 19, 2008 02:47 PM         

I don't know how to say this without coming across as attacking you. But we all get it. We get that you have your ways and Linda had her ways, and other have their ways. Just because you believe that when letters are added they become Lexigram based readings does not mean thats what they are. Linda felt that if letters were added, mistakenly, then there was a reason for it. The word druids wanted what ever it may be, to be known. Just as adding the words, to, the, and, help the readers understand what the lexigram is trying to say. Linda did make mistakes, but there were reasons for it. Maybe she knew, maybe she didn't. Linda had a very cryptic way of showing us things.

I know you are passionate about lexigrams and doing them correctly, to your standards. But others are just as passionate about what they too can come up with and find hidden within the words. To have you constantly tell people how they NEED to be done, is getting a lil tiring. Each lexigram that is posted has a comment from you that can be read on just about any other lexigram that is posted with in the forum ...your message is everywhere and is heard LOUD and CLEAR. But just because we hear it and see it, does not mean people need to agree with it. Just as you don't agree with Linda's methods or Will I Am's method from www.goodworksonearth.org Remember that ... everyone has a way. One man says green another says blue ... who's right? Both ... they both see it in their own way, it's own light who are we or you to crush them and tell them there are wrong. What I'm saying is, we get it already.

posted June 19, 2008 05:15 PM         

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Each lexigram that is posted has a comment from you

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But I'm asking that you back off a lil from stepping in and correcting everyone, and insisting they conform to your methods of lexigramming.

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I am sincerely trying my best to ignore the repeat offenders, and have ignored many a shoddy "Lexigram" others have gone ga ga over without realizing such have many HIDDEN errors and added letters and words, not a few or small ones, but many.
OH TO BE SURE SUCH PSEUDO LEXIGRAMS SOUND REALLY FLOWERY MYSTICAL AND FABULOUS! ANYONE'S WOULD WHEN THEY ADD AS MANY WORDS AS THEY DESIRE TO FLUFF IT UP!
I DO NOT SEE WHY THAT IS CONSIDERED RIGHT OR ETHICAL!
LINDA SAID ADD A LETTER OF A SHORT WORD NOT DOZENS OF WORDS AND LONG WORDS!
I contribute alot here. I do not need to do so. Sorry it offends some, but it does not offend all. Some do appreciate my help and or guidance. And I got spammed by some of the offended ones. In fact I am still being spammed at a certain Lexigrammer e-mail address with up to 200 spam e-mails a day! There are only a few who would have such a motive.