And is it really a threat to our lexicon? If you find the above string of letters utterly unintelligible, you are clearly an internet "noob". Let me start again. Golly gosh! What is going on? It is both "LOL" where all the letters are pronounced separately, but also commonly "lol" where it is pronounced as a word. The phrase was ushered in alongside OMG Oh My God , with dictionary guardians pointing to their growing occurrence "in e-mails, texts, social networking As well as school playgrounds, words like "lolz" and "lolling" can be heard in pubs and offices - though often sarcastically, or in parody.
Love it or loathe it, "lol" is now a legitimate word in our lexicon, says Graeme Diamond, the OED's principal editor for new words. The word serves a real purpose - it conveys tone in text, something that even the most cynical critics accept.
I'm basically someone who kind of hates it," says Rob Manuel of the internet humour site b3ta. But for young internet entrepreneurs like Ben Huh, of the Cheezburger Network of comedy sites, "LOL" is much more than a necessary evil. It's both a tool and a toy. I use it all the time in e-mail exchanges.
It's a polite way of acknowledging someone," he says. In almost an ironic sense, like a slow handclap after a bad joke. But no matter how much irony we cake it in, the L-word grinds the ears of many people over the age of BWL : Bursting with laughter Kek : kekeke.
Notify of. Oldest Newest Most Voted. Inline Feedbacks. Reply to Anonymous. Load More Comments. It is also due in part to the belief that there was a large river flowing between the Bahr-el-Homr and the Lol. New Word List Word List. Save This Word!
We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms. Origin of LOL First recorded in —90; from its use in digital communications. There are all sorts of ways to express laughter on social media and in text messages.
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