Thread: Hello everyone my name is Tasman :)

Originally Posted by Rushy

The incremental development of the English language is such a fascinating thing @NZBeeMan Without my being critical or disrespectful, in these two sentences I recognise that you have used the language I have spoken and have communicated with in it’s written form my entire life but this old baby boomer has no idea what you are talking about (hastily acknowledging that it was not directed at me so therefore I do not need to understand it). I find that simply intriguing. Please don’t try to explain, I am content not knowing. I am sure that even younger people could carry out entire conversations in front of me in modern English that would sound to me like encrypted code. Fascinating really.

I'm sure that you could de-code it given the context.
@Rushy, you aren't that much older than I am (I may not have said that 20 years ago, how time changes your perspective). I guess growing up with computing and associated tech does cause a language shift; I struggle with the language of 'the youth of today', probably almost as much as a boomer