Alt, Cntl, Del, Recycle, Dump, Restart, F1, F2, etc., etc., etc...Just a few years ago, what in the world did all these mean? Flag this, home, escape, shift, number lock, and enter have all come to mean something entirely different. How about pause break, print, cap locks or tab? And who could forget fn,copy, paste or drag? What would the world have been like on the school playground if the modern day words were used? What would the world be like in “reboot” mode?
“Hey Billy” one boy cried out to another, “How about dumping that recycle bend while flagging the restart button?” Billy responds, “Can't do it right now, I have to escape and make a shift toward home. I've got number locks that I have to enter or my mom is going to drag me until I'm out of Cntl.” “Oh, okay,” Billy returns, “I suppose I should go home and reboot myself before I get some type of virus or get deleted from this area?”
Would the playgrounds really sound that way? Whether it's F1, F2, F3 or F4, doesn't really matter that much I suppose. It's just a few more terms that have been added to the communication between humans or should I say computer savvy individuals. There is no harm I suppose, and the only problem comes when people who know the language speak to those who don't. That's the time when those who are not equipped feel left out and defeated, deleted, and file thirteened or F8ed, or maybe it was esc or del or, no matter, it's probably better to reboot now anyway.
Until tomorrow...Why Say More?
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