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Do you think lol is its own word? When I type lol, i never think laugh out loud, and I never do Laugh Out Loud. Lol has gained its own meaning, it doesn't just means you laughed, it means you found something funny to even the slightest degree, therefore, it is no longer laughing out loud. Lol means Lol imo

 

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It's kind of stupid because we added swag, selfie and twerking to the oxford dictionary, I feel lol has a place too.

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Do you think lol is its own word? When I type lol, i never think laugh out loud, and I never do Laugh Out Loud. Lol has gained its own meaning, it doesn't just means you laughed, it means you found something funny to even the slightest degree, therefore, it is no longer laughing out loud. Lol means Lol imo

lol is just a way to express laughter through text

if someone said "blablabla" online and you type 'lol', that probably means that if they said it to your face you would laugh in response

if you WOULDN'T laugh, then you probably shouldn't be typing 'lol'

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no it will never be a word on its own since it belongs to a informal context

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It's kind of stupid because we added swag, selfie and twerking to the oxford dictionary, I feel lol has a place too.

Swag was already a word meaning free stuff. As for the other things, people just like to fuel stupidity so they themselves can be just as "cool".

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It's kind of stupid because we added swag, selfie and twerking to the oxford dictionary, I feel lol has a place too.

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Yep. It just means laughing not "laugh out loud" now. It also meets word criteria because it has a vowel and consonants.

 

 

lol is just a way to express laughter through text

if someone said "blablabla" online and you type 'lol', that probably means that if they said it to your face you would laugh in response

if you WOULDN'T laugh, then you probably shouldn't be typing 'lol'

 

 

no it will never be a word on its own since it belongs to a informal context

Geuss you never read my full post huh? I specifically say that it used to be Laugh Out Loud but has become something else, therefore its own word

 

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see when i see lol i dont' think funny i think drowning person... if you dont understand just stare at it for a while. lol

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It's kind of stupid because we added swag, selfie and twerking to the oxford dictionary, I feel lol has a place too.

 It isnt stupid at all. If you realised what a dictionary was, you would realise why it isnt stupid.

 

It is a book that lists the words of a language. The word "lol", "swag" (which has multiple meanings, and has existed for hundreds of years), and "selfie" are words that are used in our language today, so why wouldnt it appear in the oxford english dictionary? The OED is the largest English dictionary.

 

no it will never be a word on its own since it belongs to a informal context

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It's funny how "lol" has really lost its impact and now if something genuinely funny to me I just type out the onomatopoeia instead.  Now "lol" is just used as a half-assed response to something dumb or somewhat funny.

 

 

 

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Geuss you never read my full post huh? I specifically say that it used to be Laugh Out Loud but has become something else, therefore its own word

No i did and my statement still stands as it belongs to a informal context , thats why no other slang word is recognized in formal literature.

as for the pretense of lol deviating from being an abbreviation to its own definition there has been afew to think where the ground work shifts over time - this is the same with many words in the English literature

 

but lol and laugh out loud are still connected as lol has not formed its own groundwork to be seen as an independent slang word

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It's an initialism, commonly miscalled an "acronym."

 

It's not an abbreviation either. ;)

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It's an initialism, commonly miscalled an "acronym."

 

It's not an abbreviation either. ;)

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It's an initialism, commonly miscalled an "acronym."

 

It's not an abbreviation either. ;)

 

You could pronounce "lol" as a word (lawl), but it's not commonplace, like the acronym "OSHA," for example.

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No i did and my statement still stands as it belongs to a informal context , thats why no other slang word is recognized in formal literature.

as for the pretense of lol deviating from being an abbreviation to its own definition there has been afew to think where the ground work shifts over time - this is the same with many words in the English literature

 

but lol and laugh out loud are still connected as lol has not formed its own groundwork to be seen as an independent slang word

Oh sorry I did not intentionally quote you, I was quoting the other two

 

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You could pronounce "lol" as a word (lawl), but it's not commonplace, like the acronym "OSHA," for example.

 

What's "OSHA"?

 

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I think it is just a abbreviation of, more air just  came out of my nose than usual; hence, I wrote lol.

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It's an initialism, commonly miscalled an "acronym."

 

It's not an abbreviation either. ;)

 

According to oxford it is an abbreviation, but personally I think it fits closer to the definition of an acronym than an abbreviation.

 

 

 

Personally I don't like that they are adding words to the dictionary as fast as they are.  I don't mind updating it to reflect modern language, but sometimes it gets to the point where they are changing definitions and including misspellings because it is easier than educating people properly.

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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