Whinging Wednesday - OMG, LOL, ROTFLMAO
Does anyone write messages these days without including one or the other? At first when they arrived on the web scene (when I still had to figure out what they meant) they were sort of cute and entertaining. Months later I was still ignorantly, blissfully convinced LOL meant 'lots of love.' After all, nothing about what was said preceding the LOLs was remotely funny. It's no wonder I didn't catch on.
I mean, you'd think that if something was really 'laugh out loud' it would have to (at least) be amusing. With everyone signing LOL after messages and comments, I took it for granted that it was something similar to, xoxo, see you later, love you, etc. How many unfunny things do you see suffixed by the letters, LOL? Yeah? Right. My point exactly.
Then came ROTFLMAO. What? It took me ages to figure this one out. I guessed it had something to do with laughing. Not only because it had the letter L in it, but because people were using it in slightly amusing circumstances. Knowing the WWW as well as we do, we should've expected this development to come hopping along. Internet nerds have to move with the times, baby! They've got to be seen to be travelling onward and upward - onto the next level, ASAP. Nowadays, something that would've teased out a wry smile is said to be ROTFLMAO. (Roll on the floor laughing my a** off). You wonder how anyone's got any butt left.
Frankly, I'm tired of seeing all of them now. Can't we get back to our little colon, dash, close brackets? Pretty please? xoxo
7 comments:
Anne, you have no idea how much self-control it's taking to write a comment in longhand.
I'd be interested to know to what extent the internet is "to blame" for these things (which are, let's face it, handy for character-constrained places like twitter), and to what extent they started life in texting.
It took me ages to get my head round lmao - partly beecause I always read the "L" as "I" & got it confused with imho
Dan, I don't mind longhand. What I dislike are these terms I mentioned above. Not *everything* can be funny.
Twitter is great for shortening familiar phrases. I've seen some which I'm yet to work out. Imho is one that took me ages to figure out.
I'm lost on most of the shorthand. ROTFLMAO- didn't know until today what that one was!
I still text in complete sentences.
Okay, I'm curious, what's IMAO??
I am trying so hard not to ROFLMAO.
hee hee!
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lmao is laugh my a** off. It's not I. It's l (as in laugh).
Again with the butt thing. :-)
I restrain myself from using these words, unless my comment might offend the author, then I put in a smile face..
But you've just solved the puzzle for me with ROTFLMAO..I couldn't figure that one out for the life of me..
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