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Hmmm..interesting. I play COD4 every FNF and I have yet heard anyone tell me .."Hey lets play COD". If people do this that is bizarre.
I say call then out. Name names!! lol.
People say COD? Weird.
I do it because Jeremy from Pure Pwnage says "COD4"!
/kidding
I do it as a sort of satire really, plus if you play around with abbreviations you can come up with some funny stuff.
Hey wanna play some LOTR:BFMEII:tRotWK? (pronounced LOTTER BE-EFFEMY-2 tee-ROT-WIK)
I agree with your rant, though this is how language works. The internet is part of our society now, whether we like it or not - and it'll only get merged even more. But you don't HAVE to conform, that's why there's still fancy British accents.
it's called the internet, people abbreviate.
To play devil's advocate, wouldn't saying "Recon" or "Ghost recon" be more imprecise than saying GRAW? Reconnaissance is a glorified word for scouting, so if I was playing a team shooter when I got that voice message, I'd probably think of something different than "switching games to Ghost Recon". Ghost Recon is a series of video games, of which there are 8 right now. I assume we'd be talking about the two Advanced Warfighters if we're talking about the 360, but if you own both, which one would the sender of the message mean? It would take even more time trying to clarify that.
Whereas if you say GRAW, you instantly know Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. Granted, people who say H3 when referring to Halo 3 or Q4 when referring to Quake 4 in spoken word are idiots, but considering some games franchise like to have stupidly long titles, why not use an easy-to-decipher acronym?
I tend to say the whole name. If I'm talking to other people who I play the game with then I just abbreviate. Sometimes I say Unreal Tournament III, sometimes I say UT III.
Do you watch Californication? There was a great quote from that show that kinda sort fits in with what you are saying. A bit of set up, the main character Hank is chatting with is girlfriend and she says L-O-L, later that day he is doing a radio interview and....
Radio Show Host: What's your latest obsession?
Hank Moody: Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it's really given us is Howard Dean's aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddie porn. People... they don't write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people at a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King's English.
oops double post, when I said chatting I didn't mean like Instant Messaging they were in bed together, face to face.
WDot-
Generally speaking, when I speak with someone and they say 'GRAW' it turns my stomach. It could be easily said as "The new Recon" for all intents and purposes...But I do see what you are saying. I think there is a huge difference between UT 3 and COD/GRAW...The 'COD' thing is what finally flipped my wig.
Kaz-
No I never saw that show. I think I saw it in the 'On Demand' page for Showtime, but I don't get that. (Since you can get Dexter and Weeds on the net, no reason to pay for it. I'll have to look for some episodes....
I completely agree. Who doesn't want to type out Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords all the time?
/end poor counter example
[s]iirc[/s] If I recall correctly, the only acronym I pronounce phonetically is GRAW. Cod is kinda funny though.
LOL, BRB
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