[Dragaera] LOLDragaera

[Alain Feeny]

Silliness and bad grammar...

I found this article that I think sums it up pretty well:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118798557326508182.html

It seems to follow a trend I've observed of people rebelling against  
language, the polite, correct, etc. form, in favour of the crude and  
intentionally "baddlee" written.

Heh, not my cup of tea...

AMF

On 7-Jan-08, at 1:01 PM, Howard Brazee wrote:

> Elizabeth Dalton wrote:
>> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>>
>>> Elizabeth Dalton wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've never really been hooked into the whole LOL phenomenon,
>>>>
>>> I've found the *best* of them to be truly brilliant.  They're just  
>>> rare,
>>> and lots of not-so-best ones are being created and posted every day.
>>> Maybe it's practice from sorting through hundreds of photos, or
>>> something :-).
>>>
>>>
> I thought "LOL" meant "Laughing Out Loud", and didn't know there was a
> phenomenon.   These messages got me to Google it, but I suspect I  
> still
> don't know what it is.
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