Posted - 2010.04.20 11:22:00 - [3]

 

lol is the generic glad/happy response, or the "I'm going to say something that IRL is unacceptable but if I add lol or :P to the end in interwebs it's fine" response.

for example

"you're an idiot lol"

Is acceptable in internet communication, but would probably illicit a response like a slap IRL.

Posted - 2010.04.20 11:24:00 - [5]

 

A more moronic trait I think is using lol as a word over voice comms (or in conversation).

Posted - 2010.04.20 11:44:00 - [7]

 

Those not gifted with an average or even mildly below average level of intellect often tend to freely disperse lols and smilies and things into their text.

Posted - 2010.04.20 12:14:00 - [9]

 

Internetspeak, or Intspeak: The only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year.

I find it ungood that so many proles lack the decency to speak normal Oldspeak

Posted - 2010.04.20 14:22:00 - [11]

 

Some people may not have properly functioning keyboards, or are perhaps terrible at typing. For the latter, it is easier to type "lol" than to say something along the lines of "I was amused by your retort, good show old bean!"

It has become something of an epithet, now being defined in the Oxford dictionary as one example. Language is described as constantly evolving, and a deliberately ironic example of this is the KJV of the Bible. Compare this, or indeed anything from that era, such as Shakespeare or Chaucer to the equivilent literature of today.

It may well be the case that in twenty, or thirty years, the English language may be unrecognisable from what we read and write today. We already seem to be loosing touch with when to use certain words, becoming very lose with our idea of 'gramatically correct', in my opinion.

Posted - 2010.04.20 14:40:00 - [13]

 

Originally by: Cat o'Ninetails

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Some people may not have properly functioning keyboards, or are perhaps terrible at typing. For the latter, it is easier to type "lol" than to say something along the lines of "I was amused by your retort, good show old bean!"

It has become something of an epithet, now being defined in the Oxford dictionary as one example. Language is described as constantly evolving, and a deliberately ironic example of this is the KJV of the Bible. Compare this, or indeed anything from that era, such as Shakespeare or Chaucer to the equivilent literature of today.

It may well be the case that in twenty, or thirty years, the English language may be unrecognisable from what we read and write today. We already seem to be loosing touch with when to use certain words, becoming very lose with our idea of 'gramatically correct', in my opinion.

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i think u ment loose lol but i luv when u get smart 4 csm =)

Posted - 2010.04.20 15:38:00 - [15]

 

Lmol.

Posted - 2010.04.20 17:57:00 - [17]

 

Problem is people (including trolls) take everything too serious, yet ***** that people are taking things too serious, soooo what happened was people ended up putting ;) or lol or some other lame smiley / meme after each sentence this is trode for "dude I said something you most likely will read it wrong and get all defensive since you missed your ADHD medication, therefore this lol or smiley proves this is a :joke: and if you get mad we will all laugh at you".

Posted - 2010.04.20 19:13:00 - [19]

 

Originally by: Cat o'Ninetails

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Some people may not have properly functioning keyboards, or are perhaps terrible at typing. For the latter, it is easier to type "lol" than to say something along the lines of "I was amused by your retort, good show old bean!"

It has become something of an epithet, now being defined in the Oxford dictionary as one example. Language is described as constantly evolving, and a deliberately ironic example of this is the KJV of the Bible. Compare this, or indeed anything from that era, such as Shakespeare or Chaucer to the equivilent literature of today.

It may well be the case that in twenty, or thirty years, the English language may be unrecognisable from what we read and write today. We already seem to be loosing touch with when to use certain words, becoming very lose with our idea of 'gramatically correct', in my opinion.

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Oh my god I think Cat's cracked.
Not even an

"x"

Ho-ly ****.

Posted - 2010.04.21 09:28:00 - [21]

 

lol = desu.

in more ways than one.

Posted - 2010.04.21 11:17:00 - [23]

 

Originally by: Zions Child

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Originally by: Cat o'Ninetails

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Some people may not have properly functioning keyboards, or are perhaps terrible at typing. For the latter, it is easier to type "lol" than to say something along the lines of "I was amused by your retort, good show old bean!"

It has become something of an epithet, now being defined in the Oxford dictionary as one example. Language is described as constantly evolving, and a deliberately ironic example of this is the KJV of the Bible. Compare this, or indeed anything from that era, such as Shakespeare or Chaucer to the equivilent literature of today.

It may well be the case that in twenty, or thirty years, the English language may be unrecognisable from what we read and write today. We already seem to be loosing touch with when to use certain words, becoming very lose with our idea of 'gramatically correct', in my opinion.

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Oh my god I think Cat's cracked.
Not even an

"x"

Ho-ly ****.

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Yes. Cat has had a few very 'non-cat' like posts recently. I like both versions

Originally by: XoPhyte

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look at all the serious posters lol

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As XoPhyte has pointed out, like I in my previous response, I wonder how the OP feels about using the provided emoticons instead of full stops

Fake Edit: I almost used the in my previous question


Slade

Posted - 2010.04.21 12:10:00 - [25]

 

I'm ok with lols, what I'm not ok with is people actually saying lol on teamspeak or vent
it ****ES me off!!

Posted - 2010.04.21 12:31:00 - [27]

 

Originally by: VanNostrum

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I'm ok with lols, what I'm not ok with is people actually saying lol on teamspeak or vent
it ****ES me off!!

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for you ♥