My husband recently got back in to massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs, because if you think I'm typing that again, you're crazy) World of Warcraft after several months away. I haven't played since the first of the year (whenever Burning Crusade came out + 2 months). Yesterday, he mentioned getting a /whisper from someone with just those six characters from my title. "And the sad thing is," he said to me, "was that I knew what he meant."
"No," I countered, "what's sad is that
I know what he meant."
(The person was asking if he wanted to join his group to go through the Scarlet Monastery - Library dungeon.)
Here's the odd thing: I love this form of communication. I don't know why, because I can't stand to be on messageboards full of chat speak and leet speak. But when it comes to actual chatting or playing games, I love to see all the "LF1M Deadmines. Need tank GTG." (looking for one more for the dungeon, Deadmines. Need a fighter-type and we're good to go.) and "WTB [specific weapon here]" (want to buy)
That's not even counting the entirely new terms that have evolved from MMORPGs: mobs, kiting, tank, aggro, pulling, and more I can't even think of at the moment.
Maybe it's the feeling of inclusiveness that understanding such weird acronyms create. Or maybe I'm just inherently lazy and would love for our language to devolve into grunts and growls.
kkthxbye