The LOL Game [Seizure Warning]

[Hero]

LOL

[KrewL RaiN]

LOL (also written lol) is a common element of Internet slang used, historically, on Usenet but now widespread to other forms of computer-mediated communication such as instant messaging, and even spread to face-to-face communication. It is an acronym for "laughing out loud"[1][2][3] or "laugh out loud",[4] or, less commonly, "lots of luck" or "lots of love".[3] "LOL" is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms such as "ROFL" (or "ROTFL") ("roll(ing) on the floor laughing"),[5][6] a more emphatic expression of laughter, "LMAO" ("laughing my ass off").[7] ROFL and LMAO are sometimes combined into ROFLMAO (rolling on floor laughing my ass off).

The list of initialisms "grows by the month"[5] and they are collected along with emoticons and smileys into folk dictionaries which are circulated informally amongst users of Usenet, IRC, and other forms of (textual) computer-mediated communication.[8] These initialisms are controversial, and several authors recommend against their use, either in general or in specific contexts such as business communications.

The use of LOL to express laughter is unrelated to other uses of the abbreviation, many of which, such as "lots of love", predate the Internet.[citation needed] LOL has also superseded the more-obvious "Ha!" that letter writers used to use.[citation needed]

Who Made LOL?

LOL was discovered by a teenager called Ben Hook he is cool.

Spread from written to spoken communication

"LOL", "ROFL","LMAO", and the other initialisms have crossed from computer-mediated communication to face-to-face communication. Teenagers now sometimes use them in spoken communication as well as in written, with "ROFL" pronounced /ˈroʊfəl/ or /ˈrɒfəl/ and "LOL" pronounced /ˈloʊl/ or /ˈlɔl/ for example. David Crystal — likening the introduction of "LOL", "ROTFL", and others into spoken language in magnitude to the revolution of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the 15th century — states that this is "a brand new variety of language evolving", invented by young people within five years, that "extends the range of the language, the expressiveness and the richness of the language". Commentators disagree, saying that these new words, being abbreviations for existing, long-used, phrases, don't "enrich" anything; they just shorten it.[9][10][11]

Geoffrey K. Pullum points out that even if interjections such as LOL and ROTFL became very common in spoken English, their "total effect on language" would be "utterly trivial".[12]

Conversely, a 2003 study of college students by Naomi Baron found that the use of these initialisms in computer-mediated communication, specifically in instant messaging, was actually lower than to be expected. The students "used few abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons". The spelling was "reasonably good" and contractions were "not ubiquitous". Out of 2,185 transmissions, there were 90 initialisms in total, 31 CMC-style abbreviations, 49 emoticons, and 76 occurrences of "LOL".[11] Nevertheless, such results should be viewed in their correct cultural context, and these statistics do not necessarily apply to other demographic groups.

Variations on the theme

English acronym, it is often used by non-English speakers as-is, even in other scripts (eg. Hebrew: לול, Cyrillic: лол).

Translations in widespread use

Most of these abbreviations are usually found in lowercase.

    * lal or lawl — can refer to either a pseudo-pronunciation of LOL, or the German translation (although most German speakers use "LOL"). Saying "lawl" is sometimes meant in mockery of those who use the term LOL, and not meant as serious usage. Some take this usage even farther by exclaiming "lawlerskates".
    * ｗ — used commonly in 2channel, a Japanese equivalent of the acronym. 'ｗ' stands for warau (笑う), which means "to laugh" in Japanese.
    * lolz, lulz — "a corruption of LOL", according to MyFOX LA; a pluralization of LOL, though often used in a singular sense.
    * mdr — French version of the expression LOL, from the initials of "mort de rire" that roughly translated means "dying of laughter".
    * 555 — The Thai variation of LOL. '5' in Thai is pronounced "ha", three of them being "hahaha".
    * asg — Swedish abbreviation of the term "Asgarv", meaning intensive laughter.
    * g — Danish abbreviation of the word "griner", which means "laughing" in Danish.


Other languages

Lol is a native Dutch word (not an acronym) which, conveniently, means "fun" ('lollig' means "funny").

In Welsh, lol means nonsense, e.g. If a person would say "stupid nonsense" in Welsh they would say "lol wirion".

LQTM

LQTM is almost the opposite to LOL and is an acronym for " laughing quietly to myself".[13] "LQTM" is often substituted for "LOL" or "ROFL" or "LMAO". Although not widely adopted by most general users or instant messaging clients, "LQTM" is often a more accurate representation of the user's reaction to a funny or humorous electronic interaction.

[Tazo]

lol

[Joe[x86]]

wtflol

[Ribose]

LOL

[Warrior]

lol.

[Tazo]

not conforming

[warz]

not conforming

emo lol

[Dale]

LQTM

[Hero]

lol

[Tazo]

LQTM

1.      LQTM     
   
"Laughing quietly to myself." A more accurate representation of the human response to funny things seen on the interweb.

When people type lol, rarely are they laughing aloud for the whole world to hear, but merely smiling and laughing quietly to themselves.

Boner jokes cause me to LQTM.

[Barabajagal]

Congrats, you all win the Lack Of Literacy award.

[Warrior]

Congrats, you all win the Lack Of Literacy award.

you win the buttface award

[Tazo]

Congrats, you all win the Lack Of Literacy award.

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

Congrats, you all win the Lack Of Literacy award.

qft