[ SECRET POST #2300 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2300 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

but why wouldn't you just type Slytherin Harry

[(Anonymous)]

Because Slytherin isn't an adjective.

[(Anonymous)]

Or a name.

[(Anonymous)]

But you can use it as one and be perfectly well understood. And it's not like "Slytherin!Harry" is recognized grammatical usage or anything.

[(Anonymous)]

It is in fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

but that's an entirely circular argument! Slytherin Harry would be just as recognized in fandom as Slytherin!Harry if people just used it! It doesn't make any sense!

[(Anonymous)]

IF they used it. But they don't. They use Slytherin!Harry.

Be the change you want to see, Anon. Go out there and rid the Internet of exclamation marks!!!!!

(There's a few for you to get started with.)
;)

[(Anonymous)]

I think Slytherin!Harry works better because it makes it obvious that you're deliberately using Slytherin in a non traditional sense grammar wise where Slytherin Harry just looks like you made a mistake.

[elaminator]

IDK about other people but I just like the way it looks. So I use it.

Sorry anon.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that part of the convention came about because of various tagging systems on different sites that don't allow for spaces between words. Or it could just be that people liked the exclamation mark because it places emphasis on the descriptor word and provides a quick visual cue that the author is discussing an alternate character/concept.

[truxillogical]

I like that it stands together as one word. If I'm just skimming for some things that I like in a sea of text, "Slytherin Harry" seems to me to indicate two separate concepts, but "Slytherin!Harry" gives me an instant image of Harry in a green tie. Plus, it looks closer to the way I'd pronounce it (the two words strung together quickly).

And it's just a little bit goofy. I like that. We take ourselves awful seriously in fandom.

[nyxelestia]

A variety of reasons. Sometimes it's just useful for the technical aspects of certain sites (i.e. ones that don't allow spaces in tags).

Though it also serves as a shorthand and avoids confusion. While it's not strictly the best example, some people read "Slytherin Harry" as a name rather than adjective + noun, so the ! emphasizes that in this context, it's the adjective+noun rather than a proper noun altogether.