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Not necessarily Gospel, but:
Laugh Out Loud.
... and I always thought it could mean:
Lots Of Love.
ATB from George
PS: If it never meant lots of love then I have misread lots of phone texts!
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Hi Massimo, Yes, laugh out loud is the meaning and there is a lot of it going on at the moment  FF |
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Either.
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| Posts: 13286 | Location: Crawley West Sussex | Registered: Thu 26 September 2002 | |
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Loss of literacy.
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| Posts: 13286 | Location: Crawley West Sussex | Registered: Thu 26 September 2002 | |
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Lots of litigation.
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| Posts: 3718 | Location: Nowhere & Everywhere | Registered: Sat 07 July 2007 | |
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Try LMAO - "Laughs my ass off" . Another wonderful invention of internet chat rooms...LOL |
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ROTFLMAO
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SBTAS
(Slightly better than a smiley)
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LSMMBA
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quote: Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
SBTAS
(Slightly better than a smiley)
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| Posts: 13286 | Location: Crawley West Sussex | Registered: Thu 26 September 2002 | |
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push it.
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I hate these text speak acronyms. Thankfully at school I was taught English, which is a very broad and fine language with influences from both the romance and Germanic languages.
Can I just add that Pink Floyd never made albums called DSOTM, WYWH, A, or even TW, although Jethro Tull did make an album called 'A'.
I did hear a comedian talking about how his mother had started texting, and thought LOL meant 'Lots of Love' and not 'Laughs Out Loud', and how this injected a bizarre sense of sarcasm into her messages, e.g. 'You are lovely LOL'.
I will go and sit in a quite place now, and drink some tea.
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If you text a lot , saving characters is a cost thing, as is punctuation. If you are from Yorkshire, do you SPEAK English though?  |
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| Posts: 13286 | Location: Crawley West Sussex | Registered: Thu 26 September 2002 | |
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quote: I did hear a comedian talking about how his mother had started texting, and thought LOL meant 'Lots of Love' and not 'Laughs Out Loud', and how this injected a bizarre sense of sarcasm into her messages, e.g. 'You are lovely LOL'.
Us old 'uns could be forgiven for this I think. I am fairly sure that my use of LOL would have been unsderstood as it was meant! ATB from George |
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quote: ROTFLMAO
ROTF Leave Me Alone O.K? quote: push it.
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| Posts: 3718 | Location: Nowhere & Everywhere | Registered: Sat 07 July 2007 | |
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I put an old telly in the local rag classifieds.
This morning I received a text off a "potential purchaser"
"Please i wud like 2 buy the Lcd.this my number"
Far out dude.
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