Chair.

In the same boat as you. Toon is just shorter and more people seem to understand it. Kind of like kk. Used to say OK. Never really understood how kk = OK but it seems faster to type when you are grouping with someone. I use it sometimes when I text now- but only with the two people I know who play WoW. Silly, right?

Is it really so much noticeably faster to type k twice than a letter twice instead of a letter that is one key to the right and one key above it?
Really?

Yeah, I prefer "character" when referring to the folks I play. But if I'm talking about the models only, I do use the term "toon." Characters are the people I RP, toons are the pixellated object in the world representing those characters.

And in some cases, especially with non-RPers who don't get the shortening of "Character" to "char," it does work better to use the term "toon."

I don't think 'kk' is short for 'ok' - it's short for 'okay, cool' (or 'kool' if you can stand it...). Ok just means, 'I hear what you're saying'. 'kk' means 'I hear what you're saying - and I like it!' I use both ok and kk, depending on how happy I am about what I'm hearing. :-)

From a typing standpoint, it's much faster to type "ok," assuming you're using more than one finger to type it.

I was told, once upon a time, that "kk" was short for "Okay, cool."

There's probably a whole long spiel we could get into regarding linguistics but the use of "kk," from my understanding is like a more congenial version of "ok."

I.E. "ok" seems cold and impersonal, whereas "kk" seems warm and friendly.

Totally Agree!!! I remember back from D2 and having the hard transition to WOW. Char doesn't seem as childish as "toon".

I'm almost exactly the same as you. In games I played in the past, it was always "characters" and then shortened to "chars". (pronounced cares) Then when I started playing WoW, everyone is throwing the word "toon" around and I didn't understand why. I thought it was really stupid, so I resisted at first. Eventually I gave in and started using the term, but I actually still don't understand the term, and it's been years.

I thought I was the only person who hated that term! I don't use it either. I say "chars" or "guys".

Lawls @ "Chair"