And does this mean LMFAO is not allowed either?
OK, Grandpa.
Why? It is a perfectly good way of getting the point across, and frequently something I read on board does make me laugh out loud. I rarely use leet speak, LOL and ROTFLMAO are pretty much it, other than a fondness for MMORPG ‘emotes’ like /drool, /facepalm, /em <insert activity>
Language both written and spoken are not concrete, they are constantly evolving…it took ‘gay’ less than 100 years to go from meaning frivolously happy to homosexual. Awful from meaning something that engenders ‘awe’ or an emotional reaction to something that is nasty. With the speed of cultural changes now thanks to the computer revolution, and the youth of today’s willingness to accept change, the english language may well end up as multiculturally slangy as the droogspeak in A Clockwork Orange. Bling, Cabron, Phat are just 3 off the top of my head. Online, leetspeak will infiltrate into peoples language use - LOL, ROTFLMAO, /facepalm, blog, let me google for the info you need…when was the last time someone on this board typed out ‘let me do an internet search for the information you need’, almost everybody says google…
I can function at language levels from leetspeak on mIRC lists [even though I hate it and rarely do it unless I really need something from a channel] through ‘dinner with the head of the university’ I can function in british vs american style english when I have to. I can even function at the ‘talk slowly and carefully to the 3 year old’ level. I had felt that I was kicked back in a living room chatting with my peers, but if I have to revert to university-speak, I can do that as well, but it will make a serious dent in my enjoyment of kicking back with friends and peers.
Now, that made me laugh out loud. I can totally relate.
Yeah, I work with someone like that. It’s unnerving. But the ones who are really about to ascend a tower with a high-powered rifle are those that have to listen to this day in and day out. The incessant laugher-out-loud is going to end up in the crosshairs, I tell you.
Y3S THEYRE IS!111!11 OMG WTF HER3 IT IS11!11 OMG
Well done, aruvqan! I agree wholeheartedly.
What the fuck is “teh”? :dubious:
I am a medieval history recreationist, and deal with primary source materials frequently, and have seen changes in language over 600 years of english, and about the same in medieval french and in german as well. No language is set in stone. Hell, spelling was mostly notional until the 1800s…IIRC even Shakespeare’s name was spelled 2 or 3 different ways in one document…Though some languages changed less drastically than english did [the spanish el Cid is written in the 1200s is more or less legible to modern spanish speakers, whereas english of the 1400s is more of a problem to teh english speaker…frex the canterbury tales:
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
When in April the sweet showers fall
That pierce March’s drought to the root and all
And bathed every vein in liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;
[not my favorite translation of the text, it is too flowery and more victorian twaddlish than I prefer, but it is the copy I have on hand :smack: ]
Most people have trouble with Shakespeare, and he is 200 years closer in language, most people give up trying to read Chaucer…Imagine what will happen in 25 years with our educational systems consistantly dumbing down what is taught. As it is, a friends kid isn’t even getting Chaucer, and for the Shakespeare instead of reading it, they are watching the movies and discussing them…and I have not seen a Branaugh movie that hasnt chopped and rearranged scenes…but then again, what we forget is that Romeo and Juliet was the Young and the Restless of its day - popular mass entertainment for the common scum=\ I dread the day that West Side Story is used to teach Romeo and Juliet because they are the same thing after all…/facepalm
LOL Flamsterette!
That is funny, isn’t it? 
I knew Spoz had written up something on “LOL” since he doesn’t much like it, either. After some searching around, I now present it to you.
LOL’s a pain but overuse of ellipses is even worse.
Mistyped “The”.
OMG teh n00bzorz. (To write in the general spirit of the thread.)
Heh Heh Heh, Hah hah, hah, he he he [choke],[choke], heh heh heh, [pees pants], ah ho ah ho ah hoh, aaaaahhhhhh, [cough]
If you really hate lollers, then you should try out this flash game, in which you get to shoot a lot of them. Might do you good.
Tahts teh stupidest tihng I’ve ever eens. :mad:
I’m 25 years old and still use “LOL”. It’s easier and more convenient than typing ::laugh::, <laugh>, or “I am laughing.” What’s wrong with that? 
Adam