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Scratch Board Jungle

Posted by Decortive Falage

52 comments

“Decortive Falage” is my drag name.

Filed in Paper Goods, Spelling Issues 52 comments

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Jan 16, 2010
2:35 pm

#1 Dynomoose :

Wow. I mean, the work itself is decent. But someone give this person a spell checker!

Rate this comment: +18

Jan 16, 2010
2:36 pm

#2 quantuminsanity :

what were they actually trying to say…?

Rate this comment: -1

Jan 16, 2010
2:36 pm

#3 aorta :

thank god there’s lots of room for writing.

Rate this comment: +8

Jan 16, 2010
2:37 pm

#4 Patty has been abuducted by an alien :

I like the artwork, really good stuff.

But I’m trying to figure out what “falage” is…

Rate this comment: +11

Jan 16, 2010
2:38 pm

#5 MistressTenn :

more like Decorative FAILAGE in the spelling and grammar department.

Rate this comment: +60

Jan 16, 2010
2:38 pm

#6 IscreamUscream :

“Decortive falage”? Hmm…maybe an ESL person.

This technique was taught in art schools when I graduated (90s), but it’s basically lost commercial appeal due to technology. My scratchboard never got this good–sorry, nothing snarky here.

Rate this comment: +19

Jan 16, 2010
2:38 pm

#7 razberries :

“Posted by Decortive Falage”- LMFAO

Rate this comment: +4

Jan 16, 2010
2:39 pm

#8 jes7o :

Did the animals depicted in the cards write the description? Is this a “I can haz cheezburger” situation?

Rate this comment: +35

Jan 16, 2010
2:39 pm

#9 fenrislorsrai :

@ #2 decorative foliage.

The artist still gets massive kudos for nice scratchboard work. That is seriously hard to do well.

Rate this comment: +41

Jan 16, 2010
2:39 pm

#10 razberries :

i think she meant to say, “decorative foliage”???

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Jan 16, 2010
2:40 pm

#11 razberries :

#9-fens- yup

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Jan 16, 2010
2:40 pm

#12 creepydolls :

Foliage?

scratchboard is a pain in the ass.

Rate this comment: +3

Jan 16, 2010
2:41 pm

#13 AMSE :

“falage” = “foliage” I have mad spellinglessitis translation abilities

Rate this comment: +3

Jan 16, 2010
2:46 pm

#14 DucksNew :

Dear Artist: maybe charge some more for your work and use the proceeds to buy a dictionary. Or Spell checker.

They created a new word, though…falage: n. work that is very good accompanied by a shitty and/or misspelled description

“Those scratch board cards were major falage. I bet the artist worked so hard on them she didn’t have energy to spell check.”

Rate this comment: +30

Jan 16, 2010
2:46 pm

#15 Sculptor69 :

I started laughing at “depicks”. It just got funnier as the errors got worse.

It really is too bad, since the artwork is actually quite decent (in a tough medium, to boot). But the lack of effort toward professionalism in the description is sad.

Rate this comment: +32

Jan 16, 2010
2:49 pm

#16 bootsychoo :

I hate when I have a boarder in my decortive falage – they’re so hard to evict.

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Jan 16, 2010
2:58 pm

#17 Mimsy Swallows :

Don’t scratchboards actually come with the artwork printed on, and you just scratch in the right spot?

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Jan 16, 2010
3:03 pm

#18 Dynomoose :

Her profile isn’t much better http://www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=5363789

Rate this comment: -2

Jan 16, 2010
3:03 pm

#19 underemployed :

#3 aorta: Lots of room for writing, and for scribbling out, and writing it again. I’m a glass-half-full sort of person.

Rate this comment: +7

Jan 16, 2010
3:05 pm

#20 StinkBait :

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.

Rate this comment: -23

Jan 16, 2010
3:11 pm

#21 NinjaGato :

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17648483
Kind of a rad design- unfortunately they felt the need to speak.
“I have been making these since High School and can incorporate practically anything
into a snowflake like design”
Oh you went to High School…how fancy of you.
“You can chose a frame ….the chose is a metal frame
a wood frame in light ,median or dark wood. If you need more choses let me know.”
You can spell incorporate correctly but medium, choice, and choose…

Rate this comment: +3

Jan 16, 2010
3:11 pm

#22 Lucretia Borgia :

This artist’s phalanges are more skillful depicting pholiage than phiddling with phonetics, phronds and phrames…. I think she may be a phoreigner. Phrom Pennsylphania, I note. Otherwise this may be subterphuge to attract the “Killer’s” eye.

Rate this comment: +11

Jan 16, 2010
3:12 pm

#23 NinjaGato :

Stinkbait- I think you’re thinking of Phalanges, which is an SAT word for finger.

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Jan 16, 2010
3:14 pm

#24 NinjaGato :

Also misspelling has always gotten people on regretsy. Hence the “spelling issues” tag

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Jan 16, 2010
3:15 pm

#25 StinkBait :

No wait…

Phallus, that’s what I was thinking of.

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Jan 16, 2010
3:16 pm

#26 nellie29 :

Give me a pretty good artist who can’t spell over a terrible artist with perfect grammar any day.

Rate this comment: +51

Jan 16, 2010
3:16 pm

#27 Lucretia Borgia :

That’s exactly what I meant, NinjaGato. “Skillful fingers” … I’m assuming she made her pieces with her fingers/phalanges and not her feet …

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Jan 16, 2010
3:17 pm

#28 Lucretia Borgia :

Sorry Gato … I thot’ you were referring to my phalanges … not Stinkbait’s …. ( hunkering down a bit in shame …)

Rate this comment: -1

Jan 16, 2010
3:30 pm

#29 Rob T Firefly :

The work shows the artist’s keen eye, fine motor control, and attention to detail, and the copy shows the artist’s ability to indiscriminately mash at a keyboard with an open palm.

Rate this comment: +41

Jan 16, 2010
3:31 pm

#30 Moons in Leo :

I was under the impression they spoke English in Hatboro, PA. Guess I was wrong. But they have adorable animal babies.

Rate this comment: +10

Jan 16, 2010
3:39 pm

#31 nitebyrd :

Depicks are for de teeth.

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Jan 16, 2010
3:42 pm

#32 leftfoot :

oh wait. they mean “foliage”.. I feel stupid. I spent about 7 minutes searching google for variations of “falage”.

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Jan 16, 2010
3:49 pm

#33 steviesegel :

Huked on fonix werked fer mee!

Rate this comment: +10

Jan 16, 2010
3:55 pm

#34 NinjaGato :

Helen would you post the link to the “Faggiest Vampire” book that you put up on the Facebook group? Our non facebookey people need to see this wonderful literature.

Rate this comment: +6

Jan 16, 2010
3:56 pm

#35 methuselah :

I always enjoy a good “(silly words) is my drag name” gag but this time it actually made me laugh out loud.

Rate this comment: +9

Jan 16, 2010
3:57 pm

#36 GoldieHawn :

Haha I bought it. For real. This is some legit scratchboard work.

I just hope they spell my shipping address right.

Rate this comment: +38

Jan 16, 2010
4:01 pm

#37 Apricotmonkey :

She also does paintings on “wood plagues”. Pieces of wood covered in pus and boils anyone? http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=19117346

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Jan 16, 2010
4:14 pm

#38 blondeweezie :

Nice work, but as a confessed “Spelling Nazi” my head is about to explode.

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Jan 16, 2010
4:19 pm

#39 blondeweezie :

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=10909344

*facepalm*

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Jan 16, 2010
4:30 pm

#40 cdelune :

Somehow I got the image of a cleavage (décolleté) being the object of fellatio!! (or is that a fallacio?)–never even assumed it was a speller error!

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Jan 16, 2010
4:31 pm

#41 hammerhead77 :

“Decortive Falage is my drag name.”

I am picturing the Goddess number from Showgirls, only with strategically placed leaves and raffia.

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Jan 16, 2010
4:32 pm

#42 cbb :

her art is pretty cool.

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Jan 16, 2010
4:57 pm

#43 Skully :

Yur artwurk iz byutyfull, butt desifring yur deskripshun gaiv me a hedake. Nex tym uze spelchek, mmmkay?

Rate this comment: +19

Jan 16, 2010
5:05 pm

#44 saucerville :

Gotta give mad props for the excellent scratchboard work. No other comment. Thumbs down me all you want. I’m overlooking the typos.

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Jan 16, 2010
5:13 pm

#45 jenny :

Yeah, I agree with saucer ville. This actually reads as someone who might be English as Second Language, or learning disabled. I’m all for picking on crap, or stupidity, but while she should probably get a proofreader, her stuff is nice.

Rate this comment: +31

Jan 16, 2010
6:24 pm

#46 leftfoot :

#41 hammerhead77: See, I was picturing something more from “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”.

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Jan 16, 2010
9:00 pm

#47 HelenaHandbasket :

I think the picture of the mother tiger licking snot from her cub’s nostrils was correctly introduced as “depicks”.

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Jan 16, 2010
9:35 pm

#48 lyontamer :

#17: It depends. You can get blank ones in art supply stores.

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Jan 16, 2010
10:14 pm

#49 Calophi :

Am I the only weirdo who saw “decortive falage” and thought of “omelette du fromage”? Oh, Cartoon Network. How your programming has screwed with my mind…

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Jan 16, 2010
10:32 pm

#50 bootsychoo :

#49 Calophi – it made me think of Regina Phalange.

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Jan 17, 2010
10:00 am

#51 ProsaicParadise :

The primates in the picture were previously grooming each other, but the artist depicked them.

Rate this comment: +6

Jan 18, 2010
12:25 am

#52 jackie31337 :

This just goes to show that being good at one thing doesn’t mean you’ll be good at another thing. I consider my language and writing skills above average (I write professionally), but my graphical abilities are on par with a 7-year-old’s. Perhaps I should form a symbiotic relationship with this artist: they handle the art and I handle the writing.

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