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GypseeWind
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posted May 24, 2009 11:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
Where, or what links, in which you have spoken about the differences in yours and Linda's way of lexigramming? I am really intrested in this...and please pardon my ignorance, but when I read Linda's book, I was under the assumption that she invented lexxigramming. Then on another thread, which I so lost, you enlightened me on its original origins. Sorry to bother you with things you have answered a ga-gillion times, but sometimes navigated through all the previous threads leaves my head spinning.

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LEXX
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posted August 09, 2009 04:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
Not up to explaining at this time.
See my blog, and if you have any questions, I will get back to you when I can.
Scroll down for index after clicking on this link. http://www.blogger.com/profile/11535666072350576429

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GypseeWind
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posted January 26, 2010 05:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
Just noticed your reply. Thanks, I bookmarked it, I want to do it right, so I don't have to do it over.

The concerns I have related to names are complicated. My first AND last names have been changed, legally, and through marriage. I have never felt I "owned" a name, besides my screen name, which I feel completely comfortable with.

And it seems weird to use the legal first name of folks who are named after their father, say, Richard, by who go by their middle name...Chris, for example.

I understand the legal name has much bearing on the person, but you would think being called nothing but "Chris" your whole life would mean more. This is where I get confused.

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posted January 26, 2010 08:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
Working on replies to both your posts here.
Will get back in a wee bit hopefully.

OK...I am back.
A bit tired so forgive any typos for now, I will fix them later.
You said:

quote:
Where, or what links, in which you have spoken about the differences in yours and Linda's way of lexigramming?

I have written so much on this issue and posted at many places on the net.
I will try to get links rounded up. Without a search feature here it is not easy.
That is one reason I gave a link to some of my blogs.
OK...in a nutshell:
quote:
1.Use any and or all the letters you have available in the frequency available within the name,
phrase, date, whatever your "source" that you are Lexigramming.
2. Do not remove any letters you do have, both consonants and vowels.
You have them, use them!
3.Do not ever add any consonants and vowels you do not have.
4. Length of name or phrase, not a problem.
You will never get even close to all the words in a dictionary.
5. Only use consonants and vowels in the frequency found within your source you are Lexigramming.
Example:
Mary Alice Kemery
AA C EEE I L MM RR YY
As you can see, any words can have those letters, but only in those amounts.
6. Lexigramming is not for the English language only.
7. The magic begins for the most part once you have your words, no matter how you acquired them.
8. Correct spelling is important. No Phoentics.
Later I will cover poeticisms and archaisms which are sometimes allowed.
Transliteration of non English names to spell them is permissible however
if the alphabet is not the Latin one.
9. With a few rare exceptions, acronyms, abbreviations and contractions are to be avoided,
unless you can actually spell out the full form.
For example; one could have H.I.V. or A.I.D.S. within their name letters,
but unless the full phrase indicated by the acronym can be found within the names
or phrase being Lexigrammed, it does not have the same significance as having the full spelling, which the acronym only represents.
10. Generally no slang if it is an adulteration of an actual word.
Such as substituting LUV for LOVE, unless you can actually fine LOVE
withinn the name or phrase you are Lexigramming.
11. No cheating and using homophones in lieu of a word one wants to be there.
Example:
RITE and RIGHT, THREW and THROUGH, are not the same word and are not interchangeable.

Those are the basics.
It gets more complicated when doing RELATIONSHIP, UNIONS, or COMPATIBILITY Lexigrams.



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I am really intrested in this...and please pardon my ignorance, but when I read Linda's book,
I was under the assumption that she invented lexxigramming.

That is unfortunately a very common misconception,
which has caused folks to not look or refuse to realize and acknowledge the long rich history of Lexigramming. It is too often her way and no other. It has become almost a religion fervor wherein it offends believers who cannot see beyond the chapter she wrote.
Sorry. but she was not the first nor the last to explore Lexigramming.
Linda did attach the word to it, but others were already doing them since antiquity under other names for the art. The word was already being used in symbolic primate language. Not sure how she got away with using their word for the Yerkish keyboard symbols.
However I suspect her publishers hoped her fans would think that she invented Lexigramming.
I was not even aware of her interest in Lexigrams until March of 2005.
I grant even that perhaps she thought she had invented them after her encounter with her guru.
However she did not invent them. Nor did her guru nor did her mythical word druids.
My apologies if that offends.
Lexigramming is ancient. And as I have previously wrote elsewhere; it has been called by many different names.
The history of Language and various forms of wordplay, is indeed written in ancient stone
and has been thoroughly researched.
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Then on another thread, which I so lost, you enlightened me on its original origins.
Sorry to bother you with things you have answered a ga-gillion times,
but sometimes navigated through all the previous threads leaves my head spinning.

There is indeed much information to ponder.
continued next post...

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posted January 26, 2010 10:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
quote:
Just noticed your reply. Thanks, I bookmarked it, I want to do it right, so I don't have to do it over.

Please browse through so I do not have to retype and all. I am disabled and so type one fingered, so it does get tiring.
Then ask me anything.
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The concerns I have related to names are complicated. My first AND last names have been changed,
legally, and through marriage.

The name you are given at your birth can reflect the basic you. your strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes, potentials and so forth.
Lexigramming can help one find their personal secrets/codes.
The names added later (marriage for example, whether changed and or hyphenated as in Mary Anne Smith-Jones)
can augment/alter your paths/roles in life.
Changing a name is a personal choice, the you that you are choosing to be of your own free will.
That when Lexigrammed can reveal who you feel you actually are.
quote:
I have never felt I "owned" a name, besides my screen name,
which I feel completely comfortable with.

You are a lovely lady. The name suits you.
quote:
And it seems weird to use the legal first name of folks who are named after their father, say,
Richard, by who go by their middle name...Chris, for example.
I understand the legal name has much bearing on the person,
but you would think being called nothing but "Chris" your whole life would mean more.
This is where I get confused.

I hope I am understanding you correctly.
OK....the FULL BIRTH GIVEN NAME is as I said previously;
"The name you are given at your birth can reflect the basic you. your strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes, potentials and so forth.
Lexigramming can help one find their personal secrets/codes."

If the father's name were for example:
RICHARD CHRISTOPHER JONES
And the son's name is;
RICHARD CHRISTOPHER JONES JR (or JUNIOR)
The son's birth given name is the same unless Junior/Jr is added.
Now, if he goes by Chris instead of Richard or Christopher,
it does not change anything when going with his full given birth name, because Chris is found within Christopher.
However if he wants to determine by way of Lexigramming what the name(s) he uses personally can reveal about himself, then he would want to Lexigram
in addition to his full given birth name, separately Lexigram only Christopher or Chris Jones. The Jr/Junior only count when using his full given birth name.
Of course he can use simply Chris Jones, or just Chris, but not as much will be found within those limited letters of those names, especially when Lexigramming simply "Chris".
Adding a nickname is another option.
Example:
A fellow I knew was sad that being a mathematician,
that MATH was not to be found within the letters of his name because he lacked the letter "H".
I could not stop from laughing when I said, "CHIP" is your nickname!
There is your letter "H" and now you have MATH in your name!
Suffice it to say he was utterly delighted!
If a person has a name like for example:
Harold James Smith.
He cannot get the derivations Harry nor Jim/Jimmy/Jimmie from the letters found within the names
Harold or James/
In those cases he may add or substitute any of those he feels reflects better his self image.
If he has a son, who is "Harold James Smith", Jr/Junior can be added and he too can choose to be
Harold/Harry or James/Jim/Jimmy/Jimmie Smith.
Then there is the matter of professional titles added to names,
such as Dr./doctor, President, Captain and so forth,
which when Lexigrammed can reveal how one is seen by others in addition to personal revelations about oneself.

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posted January 27, 2010 03:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
Hi Lexx;
Thank you for replying, escpecially one fingered, now I feel bad!

Would you mind if I copy and paste your rules one through eleven into my myspace blog? That way, I don't have to flip back and forth looking for them when I'm doing this.

Yes, OK, I see what you mean. Chris/Richard is a real person. He isn't name after his Dad completely, as his Dad doesn't have the middle name Christopher, so there isn't a Junior to worry about. But, now that I see that Chris is contained in Christopher, it doesn't really matter in his case, both are there. Cool.

Funny with your friend Chip and the math.
My BC name contains all kinds of things having to do with alcohol, and I've been a bartender.
I've noticed lately, there are alot of words in there too, involving airports.
Maybe I can catch the next flight out of the bar, I'm getting too old to bartend!

Thanks again, Lexx.

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LEXX
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posted January 27, 2010 08:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
quote:
Hi Lexx;
Thank you for replying, escpecially one fingered, now I feel bad!
Nah, no need to feel bad.....it is just how it is for me. Just bear with me when I take time to reply and remind me if I forget...damn those brain farts!
quote:
Would you mind if I copy and paste your rules one through eleven into my myspace blog? That way, I don't have to flip back and forth looking for them when I'm doing this.
Yes! Go right ahead! However if open to the public please add
"Thank you LEXX"
quote:

Funny with your friend Chip and the math.
My BC name contains all kinds of things having to do with alcohol, and I've been a bartender.
I've noticed lately, there are alot of words in there too, involving airports.
Maybe I can catch the next flight out of the bar, I'm getting too old to bartend!

Me go all duh...what does BC mean?

That is cool that you found those associations with words found within your name!
As I have said before, one need not put found words into a Lexigram or poetry form...
the words can still have significance all by themselves individually!
Please e-mail me if you would like to beta test a new resource not released to the general public as of yet, to help folks with Lexigramming. My e-mail is at the home page in the upper left at "Labors Of Love".

Thanks again!
Sincerely
Lexx.

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posted January 27, 2010 10:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
No problem with crediting you!

And, not to worry, I am patient. I can wait as long as you need for any replies.

BC= Birth Certificate.

Yeah, in no way, shape or form am I ready to make any poetry or prose out of the words that I find. I'm lucky to find the words!
In fact, when I first read Star Signs, I didn't have a computer. When I read it the second and third times, I had a comptuer, but did not know that there were sites that generate words for you.

Now that I found those, I honestly don't know if they are a help or a hindrance.
My son and I put his name into one, and just got so distracted by the thousands of words it generated. It seems to take the creative process out of it, so I'm sort of torn on using them.

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