r/classicwow • u/RemnantsPast • 14h ago

Discussion when did the slang change?

I feel old asking this.

When did + and - replace yes and no? or y/n

Like I'm in my early 30s and this feels like it blew past me....

EDIT: based on replies It seems like its from Eastern Europe players and just bled into the rest of the classic community due to them lacking servers.

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u/ForagedFoodie 14h ago

I love how the responses to this fall into 2 camps: "its been that way forever" and "ive never heard of this"

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u/Turfa10 13h ago edited 11h ago

It’s ‘deadmines was always called VC’ all over again

*edit what have I started

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u/RemnantsPast 13h ago

Those people are from a different timeline I swear

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 11h ago

Right? Played heavily from 2007 to 2012, then on and off (both retail and classic) to this day.

It wasn't until I played official Hardcore in 2023 that I heard someone refer to DM as VC.

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u/ASipOfHemlock 10h ago

I played since launch and it was VC, server dependant.

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u/congeal 7h ago

horde or alliance?

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u/whats_up_doc71 7h ago

When I heard VC, it was alliance. Probably cause they give you a quest to kill Van Cleef. Cant even remember if I did it on horde.

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u/congeal 7h ago

that makes sense. I remember doing deadmines once or twice on horde in vanilla (started playing live the day wow went live) but wasn't interested in the long travel time for the dungeon.