{"id":27004,"date":"2017-12-21T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27004"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:00:17","slug":"needing-to-hide-frustration-with-internet-lingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27004","title":{"rendered":"Needing to hide frustration with Internet lingo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/internet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27005\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/internet-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/internet-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/internet.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I need to learn to disguise my frustration with Internet jargon, lingo, terms of art.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a bit of a shopping day for me. I ventured to a couple of locations in Amarillo to find a gift for my much better half. One of them was Barnes &amp; Noble, the famous bookseller.<\/p>\n<p>I asked about a particular book. The young man looked it up online. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to tell you we&#8217;re sold out,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I can order it for you.&#8221; I asked if it would get here by Christmas. &#8220;Oh, no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I mentioned that she has this Internet tablet. He asked if it was equipped with a &#8220;Nook&#8221; or some other kind of hookup.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when I let it slip. I answered in a voice that dripped with exasperation: <em>&#8220;I &#8230; don&#8217;t &#8230; know.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My answer, or more to the point the <em>tone of my voice<\/em>, drew out-loud laughter from the six other customers who were gathered around the Customer Service kiosk.<\/p>\n<p>A young man standing next to me said he understood my exasperation. A lady pointed to a man standing next to her who I presume is her husband and said &#8220;That sounds like someone I know pretty well.&#8221; The fellow about whom I think she was referring laughed &#8230; again!<\/p>\n<p>This new Information Age has created a language that many of us don&#8217;t yet understand. I&#8217;m getting a bit more conversant in some of it. I am able to talk to the company that &#8220;hosts&#8221; my blog domain and am able to ask fairly intelligent questions. Two years ago I would have had the tech on the other end of the phone pulling his or her hair out by the roots.<\/p>\n<p>My sons and my daughter-in-law know how to speak this language. I am guessing that very soon my 4-year-old granddaughter will be fluent in Internet-speak; indeed, her brothers already have learned the language.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;m going to work first on masking my ignorance.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to learn to disguise my frustration with Internet jargon, lingo, terms of art. Today was a bit of a shopping day for me. I ventured to a couple of locations in Amarillo to find a gift for my much better half. One of them was Barnes &amp; Noble, the famous bookseller. 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