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I understand most of the acronyms and magic shorthand on this forum but still canīt seem to figure out what "LOL" means. It is used quite often. Can someone explain this to me please? Forgive me if this has already been asked. Thanks. |
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Laugh Out Loud Usually used after a funny line or to indicate sarcasm or that what you have written was in jest. Oooops...I suppose I should have let the mgmt. answer this? LOL Have a good New Year Nick Zender P.S. I'm hoping this isn't one of those times that I answered the obvious choice only to find out that there is another use for LOL in the magic world? LOL |
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| People have different meanings for the acronym. I believe it originally started as laughing out loud, however, it's mutated into laughing on line, and other varions things, so generally, it means they're laughing. |
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Nick and Chris, Many thanks and hope you have a great New Year. :bubbly: |
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Such can be found under F(requently) A(sked) Q(uestions) for online forums along with how to decode emoticons. These acronyms developed way back when people were working on teletype terminals and had to fuss over every keystroke. They became a kind of nerd chic for a while then became a sort of dabblers' excuse for poor communication and lazy typing that they are today. After folks got Windows and spell checkers, all such shorthand went from trendy to sophomoric. Here in a special interest forum with a focus on communication it is merely juvenile. |
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LOL Laugh Out Loud LOL Laughing Out Loud LOL Lack of Love (game) LOL Ladies of Lallybroch LOL Land O' Lakes LOL Language of Literature LOL Language of Love LOL Last or Least LOL Laughing On Line LOL Lautes Online Lachen (German: Loud Online Laughter) LOL Lawyers on Line LOL League of Losers (wild 17 chess team) LOL Legend of Legaia (video game) LOL Legend of Lothian (computer game) LOL Less Of Lip LOL Lewd Obscene Language LOL Life of the Land LOL Limited Operation Life LOL List Of Lights LOL Little Old Lady |
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[quote] On 2003-12-28 11:37, JonTown wrote: Such can be found under F(requently) A(sked) Q(uestions) for online forums along with how to decode emoticons. These acronyms developed way back when people were working on teletype terminals and had to fuss over every keystroke. They became a kind of nerd chic for a while then became a sort of dabblers' excuse for poor communication and lazy typing that they are today. After folks got Windows and spell checkers, all such shorthand went from trendy to sophomoric. Here in a special interest forum with a focus on communication it is merely juvenile. [/quote] LOL! I totally agree, but I had to do it anyway. |
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Bet you don't know what ROTFLMAO is! "Rolling on the Floor Lauging My ...." |
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Jonathan Townsend uses the phrase "nerd chic". I absolutely LOVE it! Terrific! |
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| To build on Jonathan's comment. The nerd chic has moved from online acronyms to the use of variant forms of 1337 (translation: "leet" a shortened form of "eleet" or "elite" wherein numerals are used to represent letters. Originally 1 was a substitute for L, 3 was a substitute for E and 7 was a substitute for T). And even 1337 has moved beyond nerd chic, to be several orders of magnitude more sophmoric and juvenile than the acronyms. |