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

[Raph Koster]

Chris Richards wrote:
> 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".

There is no such thing as corrupting the language.
Lest thou dost think that our tongue remaineth immutable,
This sooth shews yt fals.

That said, I've been observing this phenomenon with mudspeke for fifteen
years. It's not at all new.

-Raph