Hey guys! So today I'm just going to be posting the start of a series of guides to help newcomers get around Animal Jam. We'll go through some terms that you may not understand yet, where to go for what you need, and various other things.
Terms! All sites have some sort of unspoken "code" that just comes with having been around awhile. Not everyone uses them, but they come up sometimes and you need to be prepared. This is especially true in Animal Jam, where we have a filter chat that creates some... Odd words to come up.
The first one is an acronym: JAG. It stands for Jam-A-Gram, the instant form of messaging to your buddies who are currently not in your area. So let's say your buddy is in Jamaa Township, but you're at your den having a party. You can JAG them to tell them 'hey, party at my den' or something along those lines.
This next one's pretty easy, and I'm sure we've all heard it at some point: AJ. Of course, it stands for Animal Jam. It's really just a faster way to say it, and I'm somewhat sure you can use it with limited chat.
That's another thing! Limited chat creates a filter, blocking you from saying certain things, including some weird stuff that shouldn't even be blocked. Along with free chat, which provides a somewhat filter-free speaking, it's probably the most commonly used type of chat. The other one is basically never used anymore, so we don't have to go into that.
Anyway, limited chat can be really annoying, and it causes people to have to create new words instead of the ones they want to say. For example, numbers.
One- normally just used a different word that sounds exactly the same. The most common use is 'won.'
Two- same thing: Spell it differently, but it sounds the same. Normally 'too' or 'to.'
Three- Here's where you have to just start using the closest you can get to the actual word. The most commonly used is 'tree.'
Four- Same as one or two. Most common? 'For.'
Five- 'Hive.'
Six- This one's a little harder to find something close to, and it changes a lot, but normally it's something that sounds sort of the same, like 'sick.'
Seven- Not really many substitutes. A lot of people use two words at once, like 'Save then' or something like that. Again, it varies.
Eight- 'Fate,' 'Late,' something like that.
Nine- Again, something that sounds similar. Normally it's the lower numbers that are used the most, so I don't really see people trying to imitate the number nine.
Ten- I don't think I've ever seen anyone use ten, but if you ever do need to, just use something similar. 'Hen,' maybe?
So anyway, there's a ton of different words that are filtered by limited chat, but if you see someone say a word that's out of context, normally it's pretty easy to guess what it is. Here's a tip: Use the other words in the sentence to figure out what the word probably means, then find a word that sounds like the one they used. It sounds harder than it is, really.
Happy Thanksgiving!
~Raven
P.S. Comment if you got my little joke in the title. (I AM THE QUEEN OF BAD JOKES WOOHOO)
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