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It's not a word, but what annoys me the most is the blatant overuse of "LOL". Every time I see this, I picture someone falling out of their chair laughing at their own joke. Why do so many people feel the need to constantly throw that out? Are they really "laughing out loud?" Do they sit there on their computer and literally laugh out loud? If so, am I the only one who thinks that this is very strange. I might laugh or chuckle to myslef here and there when presented with something funny; however, I rarely start belching out high, gawdy, aggrivating noises while sitting at my computer.
You are not the only one. In my mind, I use the term 'loltard' for anyone who lol sprinkles his or her sentences lol with excessive use of lol lol because it has become this bizarre comma substitute lol.
Lately, I've been developing an allergy to abbreviations. "Dino" for dinosaur, as an example. It's hard for me to believe that anyone could actually be so lazy, spelling a whole word is too difficult!
I don't necessarily agree with short hand for a word, but it is convenient for phrases. It depends on where and how they are being used, though. It's also a sneaky way to get obscenities past censors on family rated sites such as this one. I looked up a collection of abbreviations for newsgroups once long ago, and when I went to the same site a few months ago, it had been severely bowdlerized for the young and hopefully still innocent. Even some of the old military ones, like SNAFU, have been redefined.
But overall, it saves time - typing OTOH or BDTD, or YMMV is a lot quicker and easier than spelling them out. I do agree that LOL is way overused.
Things often seem to be "pre-prepared". So, what you're getting is the result of getting ready to prepare something? It's usually used when referring to food. After it's ready, is that then "post-prepared"? Or "post-pre-prepared"?
Another scream-inducer for me is writing something like "It wud b gr8 2 c u". I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to see them if they emailed that to me. On a phone, where each word costs money and there's little space, okay. But it doesn't belong outside that context. IMHO.
Like when they say 'your a looser'? Reminds me of when they say 'your a moran'.
I tell you. Anyone posting in this thread should never, never, never look at their local CL R&R. Their heads will explode.
I'm sure you meant to write "you're" as in you are a loser, and not "your" a loser. Your is the possessive form of you. And yourn is the hillbilly word for your, and can be plural yours, as in "These are all of yourn" when speaking to more than one person.
- typing OTOH or BDTD, or YMMV is a lot quicker and easier than spelling them out. I do agree that LOL is way overused.
But WTH do they mean?
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