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Error Free Lexigramming or Cheating?

WHEN LETTERS AND OR WORDS ARE ADDED THAT ARE NOT FOUND WITHIN THE SOURCE, THE RESULTING CREATION IS NOT A TRUE/ACTUAL LEXIGRAM!
IT IS A LEXIGRAM BASED READING.
I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH FOLKS (who are simply having fun, and are not the "charging for their services, self proclaimed pros") ADDING NOT ALLOWED LETTERS BUT IT IS NOT RIGHT NOR HONEST TO HIDE THEM!!!!!!!!
P L E A S E
Do this if you add letters please!
For example you add an "S" you do not have.......
THI(s)
or an "O" T(o),
Or any letters not found within your "source".

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

And remember when you deviate from the actual letters found within your "source", whether by adding or removing letters, the resulting creation is no longer a true Lexigram.

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.lexigrammer.com/2008/03/druids-of-stonhenge-re-vision.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;

quote:

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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.

See this link:

WHAT'S IN YOUR NAME? Find out with LEXIGRAMS!

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.

For those who believe in word druids, they should be able to help one see the relevant words on a list! The words should jump out, and up and catch your eye if relevant, and the non relevant ones fade back unnoticed!
That is real magic!

Some have said that there is no right or wrong way to Lexigram.

Some have been angry at my discussing my methods and teaching others how to Lexigram because it is not one of the popular ways.

My comments on such statements:

When a method can be disproved or proven LOGICALLY, then LOGICALLY there is a right and wrong way, LOGICALLY.
I have said nothing ILLOGICAL.
And some folks do HIDE ADDED LETTERS and WORDS INTENTIONALLY.
Just because someone wants to say a cow is a horse does not make it true no matter what imp or psuedo religious mystical new age fervor for a supposed mystical validation of an untruth is. Logic is Logic and once out of those bounds it becomes chaos and all LOGICAL rules that can be proven are abandoned in favor of doing one's own thing which may or may not be logical, or provable.
I can back up my methods, others cannot.

The misconceptions and the bigotry towards folks with what some say have unlexagrammable names. That is cruelty and uncalled for.
I prefer to think Linda had not thought it out completely and if she were alive these days would say something like "wow! I guess any name CAN be Lexigrammed after all!"
My methods are closer to LGs than certain others who cannot tell an anagram from a Lexigram and a word list from a Lexigram, or worse, call a word list an anagram!
If you desire to dis me then prove me wrong, show that my Lexigrams are crap, prove it and I will listen! But the reasons had better be LOGICAL and provable!
I am very willing to help folks fix their lexigrams and show them alternatives, synonyms and so forth to replace not allowed words. I have done this for many folks, and gave step by step examples/instructions, and worked with folks, not simply tossed out popular rules which are unfair to many folks and ideas which are biased against non English language. My deepest thanks to those who want to learn. I have seen some very promising Lexigrammers on the web, and some who are very good already who are able to create error free Lexigrams at times. It is a pleasure to read those!
Lexigramming for me is a passion and an art, not a religious/cultish like pursuit that dismisses logical precision in lieu of haphazard adding and removing letters as ones' whim dictates. My Lexigramming methods are to Lexigramming what history/fact is to myth/religous belief. Belief is not fact nor logical, nor can it be proven. I can however back up what I say with logical proof.

Another observation someone recently pointed out to me concerning Lexigramming ethics.
To add not allowed letters or words or remove letters, is akin to a Tarot reader or an Astrologer deviating from exactly what the Tarot Cards or Stars are revealing, by removing things revealed which might upset the client, or to add nice nice things which are NOT ACTUALLY THERE TO EMBELLISH AND FLUFF UP THE READING TO IMPRESS AND PLEASE THE CLIENT WITH FALSE INFORMATION!
Such practices are just as unethical to Lexigramming as it is when doing Tarot readings and or Astrological readings.
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!