I feel that the intrusion of MMO lexicon into tabeltop RPG's actually represents a disturbing trend; unfortunately it's a trend that Wizards promoted with the release of D&D 3.0. More and more of the new players I meat think that D&D is just a computer game without the computer. Their first consideration for how "good" their character is is how effective they are in combat, they have no idea what I mean when I talk about metagame logic (the fact that we even NEED such a term is disturbing; it represents an even more dismaying trend), and the absolute limit to their roleplaying is coming up with their character's name.

There's an entire school of linguistics that believes that our culture is determined by the evolution of our language, rather than our language by our culture. If it can be true of a parent culture, it surely could be true of subcultures within it, and if that's the case, PnP is already dying.