A Sign of the End Times

[ladylight]

Pal: What are you up to right now?
Me: Oh, just checking email for the first time in a while ... sort of lolling around on the couch, you know ...
Pal: Really? What's so funny?

... NOTHING! NOTHING IS FUNNY! I JUST HEARD THE CHOKING DEATH-RATTLE OF MY NATIVE TONGUE!!

*curls into a little ball and weeps* T_T

I r go shoot a friggin lolcat now,

Comments

[rosiphelee]

*twitches* Oh, no. That's just wrong, even if I do accept the general desirability of language evolution.

[ladylight]

I know ... I'm not one of those odd intransient language purists, but I do insist that my language evolves into another language ...

*clings and bawls*

[saltnester]

I've heard 'lol' said aloud - I point and laugh. Deonstrating how it's done, wot?

[ladylight]

You are made of ecksdee.

[drazzi]

I love the word lolling, and want to use it more in general conversation.

However, I'm a sad monkey and also use 'lol' offline, with my net buddies.

Never are they confused though!

[ladylight]

Oh, I am always willing to distribute Limited Use LOL Permits (I'm just generous and well-balanced that way, see). LULOLPs, I have just decided to call them. In a GW environment, say, there is simply no time to type "Oh, what a fabulously amusing situation you have just described to me!", and there is likewise Humour Value in telling someone you less-than-three them in a normal offline conversation.

But! Yes! Confusion! No! Very No! *points up and splutters*

*requires a life, yes. but not acronyms* >_>

[drazzi]

I'm going to imagine you as a super hero now, going around and teaching people to keep net-speak and text-talk to an ironic statement offline... I don't know what your name would be, but I would totally watch your show X3

Odd somewhat related story:
kamara and I: *leaving Pizza Hut*
Random person: Talking talking lol talking.
kamara and I: *stop dead in our tracks*
kamara: ... Did they just say 'lol'?
Me: But only we're allowed to say lol D:

[ladylight]

I would totally be a superhero! I'd be like that guy who guest-appeared on the '70s Batman series with mirrorball goggly things on his head. Only obviously I'd have to be his sister if I still wanted the goggly things.

This is why you should always carry a wiffle-bat! D:

[age]

*headdesk*

I'm afraid to ask how old this person is, or if they are aware on any level that LOL and loll are two very different things...

[ladylight]

She's seven years my junior, but all that means is that I have the moral right of seniority to paddle her with a roffle breadboard. *sage nod*

[outchanter]

If you have a roffle iron, can you make roffles and syrup? Hmm...

[ladylight]

This calls for experimentation. Or at least a bottle of syrup.

[shanra]

Pretend it's not an acronym, but an adopted form of Dutch! Like cookie and yacht are. *nods sagely* Its etymology would even fit its meaning, Dutch 'lol' meaning so much as 'fun' and all that.

[ladylight]

Inspired! I'll sit and pretend that Australian society is actually becoming bilingual and smarter!