What's with all the drahma!?!?!?

I keep seeing this word crop up in post after post. My assumption at first was that people use the word drahma to make the word drama sound ever so much more drahmatic .

But where did this usage originate? Is its use peculiar to SL? I find no mention of it in online dictionaries or the wikipedia.

Here's my speculation:

The word drahma and its variant dhrama tend to crop up most often as a misspelling of the word dharma. This sanskrit word is very important in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. One of the meanings of dharma is the essential nature or function of a thing. I saw this and thought - forums... drama... essential nature... yup!

Drahma is the essential nature of the forums.

all is illusion. on a hard drive somewhere.

Doeznt matt3r cuz iz all onez and zeroz!1111111!!

cast off the shackles of immaterial things and become one (and zero) with the data!

I always thought "drahma" was a just another way of spelling drama. Spelled that way by the people on the forum that think they're cool and cute.

Yar.

Someone enlighten us please??

Same here.

I'll start spelling drama with an H when I start spelling owned with a P.

it is. Spelled to indicated an accented pronunciation. Usually used in situations where the topic has taken itself too seriously and someone is trying to lighten the mood. Most people don't read sanskrit, and any similarities to a sankrit word either exist by coincidence or because the word drama actually has a root somewhere around there.

This variant spelling is used to emphasize a particularly whiny form of personal dramatics...not at all to be confused with legitimate thespian endeavors.

Drahma is the essential monthly nature of the forums.

I'm a sexist, what can I say?

Whoops! I believe I left these codes out of my post:

[satire] (insert body here) [/satire]

It seems my seeds missed the target.

Ana is like... cool. I like talking with her because she makes sense to me. She is very insightful and I like her observations about the world. And she has taught me some valuable things.

I will just say I have been involved in enough forum troubles on past Internet message boards, so I actively choose not to do that here. ^_^ I've had enough personal experiences with "drahma", so to speak. Hehehe.

Is there sort of a forumkarma for "post offenders" (like "sense offenders" from Equilibrium, LOL) too?

Been there, done that.

I don't believe you Torley! Did you really make sense of my last post? Hmmm? I don't see how because I left out 5 or 6 steps in the illogical linkage.

Satire.
---> From the latin satira prob. an alteration of satura a mixed fruit plate
---->Some people may discover seeds in their fruit.
---->Like watermelon, for instance.
---->Watermelon seeds are good for spitting.
---->So satire is literary equivalent of spitting watermelon seeds at somebody.

Ok not really. I mean, did the Romans even have watermelons?

Torley, you're so sweet! But stop with the flattery or you'll inflate my head even more and give me trouble maintaining my street cred as a total dork!

Edit: Crap, I must have spit on someone after all, to get it moved to off-topic.

I believe that Drahma was a word created by Hank Ramos in an effort to differentiate between the necessary and the frivolous.

*pushes Ana's glasses up her nose and gives her a warm fuzzy hug*

I dont know if I'm seeing an increase in actual drama?

I see a lot of people making points that ought to be good topics for discussion and then endlessly talking round in circles getting more and more frustrated because there is absolutely no chance that either side is going to get the other to so much as acknowledge each others viewpoint.

The level of drama itself seems about the same. It's just the thrashing seems to be getting more frenzied after the bait has been taken.

It's the sign of a complete societal breakdown. We're all doomed I tell you! DOOMED!

and your point is?

Ah interesting! Can we confirm that the word was originally coined by Hank? Unfortunately the Archives are fragmentary at best. Hank does have the original credit as far back as the search goes.