Lag-jump. An eternal annoyance for WoWers nation wide. It occurs when your latency is so insanely high that you continue moving without realising the rest of the world has stopped. In an effort to repair the error and catch your screen back up to the real time state of the game, everything appears to leap into its real current position, giving everything the effect of 'jumping'.

This happened at the worst time to me. I was running to catch a ship, I jumped over the rail (as is per my custom) and just as my feet were to land on the bridge, the whole ship lag-jumped out from under me and I fell gracelessly face first into the ocean. I looked into the distance and saw the happy ship floating merrily on its way a good mile out from shore, the pearls of laughter echoing in the chat screen from the passengers on board.

I hate lag.