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LOL's & Their Place in Society

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lol - It's original definition was "Laughing out loud" (also written occasionally as "Lots of Laughs"), used as a brief acronym to denote great amusement in chat conversations. (www.urbandictionary.com)

 

 

 

Does this word even mean anything anymore? It's used so many times ingame that it's beggining to lose all meaning. Sometimes I wonder; if a person replies with the word lol to you after you finish a sentence, are they amused with it? Or are they just too damn lazy to type out a proper reply?

 

 

 

It's like:

 

Hey, my cat died.

 

Lol.

 

 

 

Anybody else had experiences with this word?

 

+ I'm not sure if this should be in Questionnares or not. :S

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well the site u put down is forbidden, but i do agree that lol is used even though the person isnt really laughing irl. i sort of use lol as like a little chuckle or smile. anything that is funny. i use rofl when it really did make me laugh in real life. and i honestly dont use lmao.

Moved, lol.

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Lol nah doesn't mean much nowadays.

 

 

 

Makes me wonder what I should say if I think it is funny.

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I only use it when it actually means something, like in an online conversation like through MSN or IRC, or [very rarely] on the forums. People use it too much.

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I have a friend who pretty much sandwiches every sentence he types with lols.

 

 

 

lol how r u m8t lol

 

 

 

I find lol is just a standard response to something that someone has said that could be considered funny, but not enough to actually make me laugh.

 

Strangely enough, if something actually makes me laugh I'll respond with 'lmao' or 'rofl', rather than just 'lol'.

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Lolwut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the word "lol" mean "fun" in Dutch? I distinctly remember a Dutch guy in runescape talking to me about that.

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Apparently a lot of people say it. I own.

 

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Yeah, lol pretty much has a "whatever" meaning these days. I try not to use it.

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Lolwut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the word "lol" mean "fun" in Dutch? I distinctly remember a Dutch guy in runescape talking to me about that.

 

 

 

yeah if something is funny you can say it's lollig in dutch. when I first got on the internet I wondered why everyone knew that dutch word :thumbsup:

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Lol:

 

A term used to fill the empty gap in conversation.

 

 

 

"I'm home alone."

 

"Lol"

 

"It's funny?"

 

"No I just don't care yet felt I needed to say something."

 

"Oh, lol."

 

 

 

Pretty damn useless now.

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Lol.

 

 

 

Nobody ever really means it... lol.

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I sometimes used lol when I wanted to tone down the harshness of a comment when talking to someone online so we don't start a flame war.

 

 

 

"That's the stupidest idea ever lol"

 

"Don't be a moron lol"

 

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??? lol"

 

 

 

I remember abusing lol this way when I was a newbie to runescape because I was afraid I'd get banned or something if I offended someone. Today I am unafraid to speak my views regardless of how you feel about it. You're all idiots. Lol. And I meant the lol this time.

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What ever happened to just typing "haha" or "hehe" to show that you find something amusing. Extend with a few extra "ha"s depending on how funny you perceive it.

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What ever happened to just typing "haha" or "hehe" to show that you find something amusing. Extend with a few extra "ha"s depending on how funny you perceive it.

 

 

 

Yeah, I'm not a fan of internet abbreviations either. Whenever (fairly rare these days) I do log on on MSN (never used anything else for chatting), I tend to just type out whatever I want to say.

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Yeah, lol is pretty much a useless space filler in most parts of the internet. I never thought about the overuse of it that much though. I didn't see it as a big deal, it was just more of response that you gave when nothing else really fit.

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I think it's often used as to show a "laugh" at the beginning of a sentence. Meaning that when someone says "Lol, that sucks dude" they're doing one of those things where they kind of laugh during the sentence but are still serious.

 

 

 

It's also used just to show someone thinks something is funny. Not necessarily that someone is actually laughing (despite the fact that lol actually means "laugh out loud").

Eh, there are two ways that I see it used; first, as an expression of mild amusement, and second, as a placefiller, so if someone wants to make it sound like they said more, or if they want to fill in awkward silences, they just 'lol'.

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What ever happened to just typing "haha" or "hehe" to show that you find something amusing. Extend with a few extra "ha"s depending on how funny you perceive it.

 

 

 

That's usually what I do nowadays, but I do throw in the occasional "lol", "lmao" or "rofl".

Yeah, I'm not a fan of internet abbreviations either. Whenever (fairly rare these days) I do log on on MSN (never used anything else for chatting), I tend to just type out whatever I want to say.

 

It also has the swell benefit of making you sound like a sensible person instead of a little child.

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I used to 'lol' a lot a couple of years ago. Sometimes, I even said it in real life, but that was also because it means fun in Dutch. Still, I never said lol in real life before I went on runescape. Since two years or something I have kind of dropped it and just say haha or hehe on the internet. And I never say 'lol' in real life anymore.

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lol, imho, is like "thats what she said" and "tbh", they are cliches that get over used by kids who think they are cool but they are most likely like that fat guy off wow episode of southpark tbh.

 

 

 

 

 

Lol

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Lol nah doesn't mean much nowadays.

 

 

 

Makes me wonder what I should say if I think it is funny.

 

 

 

I use 'haha' and 'lol' when I can't really think of anything else to say, or occasioanally just to spice up a sentence a little.

 

 

 

If you think that something is really funny, I'd suggest a rofl or a lmao

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Lol, it's totally useless.

 

 

 

When I play RS, just about every line of text I read contains this annoying acronym that use to mean something.

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lol is the internets first meme, it lost all it's meaning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lol

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