[MUD-Dev2] Importance of emoting (Was: A rantagainstVanguardreviews and rants)

[Chris Richards]

On 4/26/07, John Buehler <johnbue at msn.com> wrote:
> I know of no one who says "gratz" in the real world.  Though I have
> actually heard people in voice chat say "see-see" instead of "crowd
> control", which floored me.  We need to get rid of text chat - and fast.
> We're going to end up further corrupting the language as a result of
> typed shortcuts.

Indeed.  Recent ones I've heard are "pone" for "pwn", "rawfle" for
"rofl", and "see-see" as you also observed.  The other I've
consistently seen, even back when I was involved with LPmud is the
verbalizing of one-word emotes to characterize your feelings in Real
Life (TM).  For instance, saying "sigh" or "laugh".