Recently, I was telling my 22-year old son about a private message I had received and explained to him that they are called "PMs." He got this big smirk on his face, shook his head and, while chuckling, said, "Mom, I've been pm-ing since I was in junior high school!" It is obvious from that conversation that I'm not very coin chat savvy! So I saw this on another forum and thought it was really helpful, useful, thorough, and a great resource, especially for those of us who were not raised in the computer "chat" community as most of the younger folks were! http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=710221
Yes, I know, and believe me, I feel it every time I listen to my kids talk their video game and computer chat lingo. It's like listening to people talk in a different language!
I love the David Hall one. I was shocked the other day watching kids play World of Warcraft online. It's a whole new language. I didn't understand much of it.
Actually we are all guilty of such lanquage distortions. Note that in buisness people use thier own terminology that eventually they all understand but others have little ideas of what is going on. Doctors have thiers, truck drivers, bartenders, welders, teachers, rocket scientists, etc all use phases and terminology of thier own. Note the Numismatic people have to have a dictionary for explaining what is being discussed. Some day in the far, far future some aliens will land here, find all this and wonder why, why, why.
I noticed how David Hall and his PCGS cohorts are listed as God first, then as PCGS employees. Oh, yeah... that forum is a PCGS forum!
