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Curry Chat => Talk About Anything Other Than Curry => Topic started by: George on May 12, 2012, 01:36 PM
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Whether it's anything to do with love or laughs, just what are people thinking when they use the three letters - LOL?
I just did a search at this forum for LOL and it throws up about 32 pages of results, i.e. lots.
As most of you will know, yesterday, it was revealed that David Cameron sent texts to Rebekah Brooks, ending with LOL, thinking it meant 'lots of love', until she said it meant 'laugh out loud'. He never used it again!
So I started transposing love and laughs into uses of LOL at this forum, and neither made much sense within many of the posts. Do members have something else in mind, or are you frequently laughing out loud at recipes and ideas?
Others have suggested it should only be used by teenagers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9720000/9720457.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9720000/9720457.stm)
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use this george
http://www.noslang.com/ (http://www.noslang.com/)
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I am inclined to think of "LOL" as analogous to smoking : mindlessly adopted by those who are more influenced by peer pressure than by their own inate intelligence. I have yet to read a message where I felt that the inclusion of "LOL" added anything worthwhile to the content. But I am intensely grateful that, whilst there are some who feel the occasional need to incorporate "LOL" in their messages, we have not yet sunk to the level of some fora where, almost without exception, each participant addresses the others as "m8".
** Phil.
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:D gr8 post
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:D gr8 post
LOL ;)
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no pro m8 LOL
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Hi George,
Interesting post. I should think that people who include such acronyms as 'lol or lmao, or indeed pmsl' do so with the intention of adding some 'humour' to their post/reply or comments. No, i doubt very much that they are really 'laughing Out loud or p***ing themselves laughing' but are merely displaying that fact they they find the post amusing, pretty much in the same way as using some of the emoticons that the forum allows.
I am inclined to think of "LOL" as analogous to smoking : mindlessly adopted by those who are more influenced by peer pressure than by their own inate intelligence.
Mmm, bit harsh I think Phil? I have used 'lol' on many occasions on this forum but not because I lack intelligence or feel under pressure to 'conform' to an expected style of chat! I've used it in the context that I have explained above. I do agree that there is 'some' pressure to understand how the youth of today communicate, especially if you have teenage children. I allow my teenage son to use MSN messenger, as long as he understands that from time to time, i will insist on looking over his shoulder just to monitor his activity. To be honest, he may aswell be writting in 'Martian' because I can not understand a single word of it BUT he thinks that I can, so hopefully, that keeps him in check?
I would say though, I can understand why it would annoy some members, afterall, this isn't really a 'Chatroom' so using acronyms, abbreviations and slang, to speed up response time, isn't really appropriate on a forum such as this.
Ray :)
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I think some of us older generation need to progress from the past, and into the present,
My grand children use shortened words all the time, and i don't see any problem with it myself, It doesn't mean there stupid, far from it.
eg:- C U L8er, nowt wrong we that, It's a time saver ;D
Les
It's a new world out there, embrace it,
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One of the great comedy wordsmiths, Ronnie Barker once wrote a sketch that went along the lines of
F U N E X?
(Have you any eggs?)
This ain't exactly new speak.
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One of the great comedy wordsmiths, Ronnie Barker once wrote a sketch that went along the lines of
F U N E X?
(Have you any eggs?)
This ain't exactly new speak.
Remember it well Stephen ;D
And your right, It ain't nothing new, In Somerset we greet someone with "Ow bis thee" Ow bad english be that
Les
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omg lmfao whilst rofl then lel! iukwim ;) lifes 2 short, live n let live! peace n curry dudes
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I am inclined to think of "LOL" as analogous to smoking : mindlessly adopted by those who are more influenced by peer pressure than by their own inate intelligence.
Mmm, bit harsh I think Phil? I have used 'lol' on many occasions on this forum but not because I lack intelligence or feel under pressure to 'conform' to an expected style of chat!
Perhaps it came across as harsh, but it was not intended to : rather, it was an honest analysis of my own feelings regarding the use of "LOL", at least when it is clear from the context that the author is most certainly /not/ "laughing out loud", but is, rather, mildly amused at something he has read or written. I confess that there have been times when I have responded "ROTFL" to a message (not many, but more than one), and yes, I wasn't actually "rolling on the floor laughing", but I /was/ very very very amused by what I had just read, and "ROTFL" seemed to sum it up nicely. As to any lack of intelligence, I had quite deliberately written about the LOL users' "inate intelligence" rather than the lack thereof, which I had hoped would make it clear that I did not think them unintelligent...
I think some of us older generation need to progress from the past, and into the present [...] It's a new world out there, embrace it
No thank you, Les, I really have no wish to. "Wanna", "gonna", "I could of", "m8" and their ilk do not represent progress; they are simply manifestations of a deliberate disregard for correctness in writing, and our society is in no way enriched by their adoption by the illiterati.
In Somerset we greet someone with "Ow bis thee" Ow bad english be that ?
It b'aint "bad English" at all; it is a perfectly acceptable production in the Somerset dialect, and no modern descriptive grammarian would dream of criticising its use in speech (so long as the speaker was from that part of the world, that is). But dialect is one thing; a flagrant and deliberate disregard for the accepted rules of written English is something completely different. In my humble opinion, of course.
** Phil.
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Internet Speak Explained (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQYx1Cr1Dwk#ws)
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I'm not brave enough to put my foot in it Ian so I'll just go for ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Now i found that very funny :)
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Great post Ian .. PML ;)
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very very funny vid ian m8 wtg lol ( ivan )
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I love Mike Booth's 'Somegreybloke' animations on YouTube. It's worth checking out his channel if you fancy a giggle. He used to post a new film every other week but he's slowed down over the past year or so.
This was one of the first Somegreybloke cartoons I saw, and this thread just reminded me of it. :)
Some of my younger friends use 'LOL' almost as punctuation. I get Facebook updates like: "went out last night lol had to get up early this mornin lmao 10 mins late for work lol".
I can't find it in myself to get annoyed by it. I was reading Stephen Fry's Twitter feed a while ago, and somebody asked him how he felt about abbreviations and text speak. I expected to see a discourse on the deterioration and evolution of language, but he just replied: "Anything is better than prissiness".
For the record, I tend to use 'Haha' rather than 'LOL'. Or I'll use one of these: ;D