Thursday, May 31, 2007

what does lol really mean?

tonight while talking to an anonymous LS member, i found out that this person initially thought that lol stood for 'lots of laughs'. -.-

so in tribute to this, fenris (in his underwear) is having lots of laughs.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well... so since you made a post I decided to look it up. This is what I found:

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.

Now, it is overused to the point where nobody laughs out loud when they say it. In fact, they probably don't even give a shit about what you just wrote. More accurately, the acronym "lol" should be redefined as "Lack of laughter."

Depending on the chatter, its definition may vary. The list of its meanings includes, but is not limited to:
1) "I have nothing worthwhile to contribute to this conversation."
2) "I'm too lazy to read what you just wrote so I'm typing something useless in hopes that you'll think I'm still paying attention."
3) "Your statement lacks even the vaguest trace of humor but I'll pretend I'm amused."
4) "This is a pointless acronym I'm sticking in my sentence just because it's become so engraved into my mind that when chatting, I MUST use the meaningless sentence-filler 'lol.'"

See: lmao, lmfao, rofl, lawl, heh, haha, lolol, and 120 for similarities.

Anonymous said...

lol!

Anonymous said...

lol Sandy called you a motherf*cker! She must really be pissed if she's swearing at you. I like your new name, Honey Lee. I understand what you're saying.

Anonymous said...

Haaaaneeeeeleeeeee!!!

Guankim said...

I will go option 1 from above and feel I missed something while I lawl now. :P