Why do people say lol all the time?
Ten years ago (we’ll soon get to why it would only be back then) the proper answer to this would have been LOL – “laughing out loud” – because in reality, texting is sprouting new grammar all the time. Yes, grammar, as subtle and sophisticated as subjunctives and such.
Is the word’lol’still a funny word?
Yes, grammar, as subtle and sophisticated as subjunctives and such. Take LOL. Today, it wouldn’t signify amusement the way it did when it first caught on.
What does Lol mean in a text exchange?
Or an exchange such as “LOL theres only one slice left” / “don’t deprive me LOL” – text exchanges often drip with these LOL’s the way normal writing drips with commas. Let’s face it – no mentally composed human being spend his or her entire life immersed in ceaseless hilarity. The LOLs must mean something else.
What’s the evolution of the phrase’lol’?
He says the evolution of the phrase “LOL” shows how texting is a new form of communication Editor’s Note: John McWhorter teaches linguistics, American studies and Western civilization at Columbia University and is contributing editor for The New Republic and a columnist for The New York Daily News.
Ten years ago (we’ll soon get to why it would only be back then) the proper answer to this would have been LOL – “laughing out loud” – because in reality, texting is sprouting new grammar all the time. Yes, grammar, as subtle and sophisticated as subjunctives and such.
Yes, grammar, as subtle and sophisticated as subjunctives and such. Take LOL. Today, it wouldn’t signify amusement the way it did when it first caught on.
What does the end of the word lol mean?
That is, “LOL” no longer “means” anything. Rather, it “does something” – conveying an attitude – just as the ending “-ed” doesn’t “mean” anything but conveys past tense. LOL is, of all things, grammar. Of course, no texter thinks about that consciously.
He says the evolution of the phrase “LOL” shows how texting is a new form of communication Editor’s Note: John McWhorter teaches linguistics, American studies and Western civilization at Columbia University and is contributing editor for The New Republic and a columnist for The New York Daily News.