The software vernacular Computer games define a software vernacular. Web browsers and word processors also do. Leverage the vocabulary of the familiar. The first graphical user interfaces leveraged the vocabulary of the office, using desktops, folders, and garbage cans to represent otherwise abstract entities. As computers entered the home, many programs, like Microsoft Bob and General Magic's MagicCap, used domestic images to make them more accessible. Now that so many people have grown up playing computer games, games are a viable metaphor for application interfaces. As the current generation of kids who play Nintendo grow up, video games will become the vernacular of software.