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life of laughers
S.S.Atrocity wrote:Im pretty sure Saukko will have pages worth of bugs found before anyone knows about the release...lol
"LOL", "ROFL", "LMFAO" and the other initialisms have crossed from computer-mediated communication to face-to-face communication. Teenagers now sometimes use them in spoken communication as well as in written, with "ROFL" pronounced /ˈroʊfəl/ or /ˈrɒfəl/ and "LOL" pronounced /ˈloʊl/, /ˈɛloʊˌɛl/, or /ˈlɒl/, for example. David Crystal—likening the introduction of "LOL", "ROFL", and others into spoken language in magnitude to the revolution of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the 15th century—states that this is "a brand new variety of language evolving", invented by young people within five years, that "extends the range of the language, the expressiveness and the richness of the language". Commentators disagree, saying that these new words, being abbreviations for existing, long-used, phrases, don't "enrich" anything; they just shorten it.
Geoffrey K. Pullum points out that even if interjections such as "LOL" and "ROTFL" were to become very common in spoken English, their "total effect on language" would be "utterly trivial".
Conversely, a 2003 study of college students by Naomi Baron found that the use of these initialisms in computer-mediated communication, specifically in instant messaging, was actually lower than to be expected. The students "used few abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons". The spelling was "reasonably good" and contractions were "not ubiquitous". Out of 2,185 transmissions, there were 90 initialisms in total, only 31 CMC-style abbreviations, 49 emoticons, and just 76 occurrences of "LOL".
LOL
Useless topic.
Geoffrey K. Pullum points out that even if interjections such as "LOL" and "ROTFL" were to become very common in spoken English, their "total effect on language" would be "utterly trivial".
Conversely, a 2003 study of college students by Naomi Baron found that the use of these initialisms in computer-mediated communication, specifically in instant messaging, was actually lower than to be expected. The students "used few abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons". The spelling was "reasonably good" and contractions were "not ubiquitous". Out of 2,185 transmissions, there were 90 initialisms in total, only 31 CMC-style abbreviations, 49 emoticons, and just 76 occurrences of "LOL".
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I love to sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- Plastic_Jesus
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Epa wrote:no sense of this topic but lol means: lisää olutta lapsille<---its finnish
more beer to childrens
Lol Epa thats old thing xD
S.S.Atrocity wrote:Im pretty sure Saukko will have pages worth of bugs found before anyone knows about the release...lol
Lot's Of Love!!
Laughting On Line!!!
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Lot's Of Luck!
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emo topics xD
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060609141451AAHkT6d&cp=3
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pK4bLMd0avU&feature=related
Laughting On Line!!!
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redheader wrote:Licking Our Lips!!!
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Lot's Of Luck!
Savior Siker wrote:Look out lunatic!
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Justin wrote:Loser of Life.. Duh
emo topics xD
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060609141451AAHkT6d&cp=3
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pK4bLMd0avU&feature=related
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