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User	eowyn | 2006-09-02 |
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Message	thankyou!!! people are begining to get my point. it is ANNOYING when you are trying to talk to someone and instead of just laughing they say LOL. and sorry, i meant :D for laughing. it was :) for smile. but my point was just that emoticoms were inplace so taht no one would do those annoying acronyms that appear to be words now.

User	Toxic_Rayne | 2006-09-02 |
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Message	lol mae, I have to agree with you rofl does sound like someone getting sick. *tox*

User	GiveMeTheGun | 2006-09-02 |
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Message	Nah, I equate the smiley face with just that - a smile. :)

User	Kunoichi | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	"if people begin to assimulate them into every day vocabs, not as acromyms, but as words, then it means that there is serious degerneration in the litterary sense, and it will be a sore blow to the world. " Example: lawl <<I frickin hate that And while your emoticons are a lot shorter to type, I can’t really equate ":)" with laughing.

User	| 2006-09-01 |
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Message	Rofl rocks - online. I’ve never heard of sif, and I don’t really understand why it bugs you so much. Do your friends use those terms in real life, or something? Because I’ve heard girls going "LOL!" as they talk and it took me a lot of willpower not to say anything to them.

User	eowyn | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	im just saying that if people begin to assimulate them into every day vocabs, not as acromyms, but as words, then it means that there is serious degerneration in the litterary sense, and it will be a sore blow to the world.

User	misty_of_moon | 2006-08-31 |
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Message	most of them are acronyms not meant to be read as a word at all. so...i mean, i’m not saying anything bad here, if you don’t liek them okay...everything is a matter of opinion but i just thought id let you know that most of them are not intended to be read as "rotfl" but rather r.o.t.f.l. roll on the floor laughing. L.m.a.o. laughing my ass off. acronyms. nobody reads U.P.S. "oops" no...it’s U.P.S. but you are right, if you read r.o.t.f.l. as a word it sounds like somebody is being gagged and trying to mimic scooby-doo at the same time....:-)

User	eowyn | 2006-08-31 |
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Message	has anyone else noticed that while they abreviate lol to ha ha or make it longer from :) they do this...no one gets transformed int knowone. its 2 extra letters that they dont seem to want to type on anything else. why is this word so special. my BF had pretty good language skills. not as good as mine, but still, acceptable, and reasonable. now he does all the aforementioned abreviations and grammar errors, and i have to go through his work before he hands it up to stop him getting bad marks, or peeving the teacher off. has anyone else noticed that this slang seems to be leeching language skills? and i repeat "what does lmao lmfao mean? i mean what the f*$#. see. i use the proper terms for this, to avoid profanity. i dont take the wimps way out with WTF!!! im quite adamant about this, arent i? and yet i dont capitalize my writing?!?! ;) im strange.

User	Kunoichi | 2006-08-30 |
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Message	For people who use these abbreviations, this internet slang already HAS replaced whatever language the rest of us use. And while I’m here I must express my deepest loathing for them. Eh, I suppose it could be called a pet peeve, but it does so much more than just peeve me... I hate lazy people.

User	PiperH | 2006-08-26 |
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Message	Yeah, what does imao mean? I’ve seen it a lot.

User	eowyn | 2006-08-26 |
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Message	its not that language has to develop, btu it is as mae said, its degrading, not improving. if you want to make an abreviation, i say it has to be relevant to what you are trying to have it to. the first time i read lol in a message, i thought he had amajor typo, until i read it three times in one message. its just making people lazier. but the wierd thing is, these "messages" are replacing the most simple way of expresing your entertainment. emoticoms!!!! is it easier to type rotfl or :) or :D????? what is wrong with generation... and what does imao mean, i havent figured it out yet which leads me to my next point. these things are impossible to figure out. i have had someone tell me everything that i know. doesnt that say something about thier usefulness?

User	DaGrimReaperess | 2006-08-26 |
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Message	the word lol pisses me off. if someone types it i go crazy. yeahhh i hate that word...

User	Jeniffer | 2006-08-26 |
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Message	Lol. In fact, ROTFL! That is so funny I’m ROTFL! Just kidding. I agree, rotfl is kind of stupid because it’s hard to tell what it means. We should figure something else out.

User	mae | 2006-08-26 |
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Message	i dont connect "rofl" with laughing. it sounds like someone being violently sick. That is EXACTLY what I always think off when I see that abbreviation! Joey is right about language being fluid - but have you ever noticed that it tends to flow to the lowest point? You know, we’re always taught, and it’s always being drummed into us, to use active voice. I heard a "word" used today - a coined word - that I haven’t decided if it’s active or passive. All I know is - without looking it up - it’s not a word. It was on a television program about how UPS sorts their packages, etc. The man called it "the sortation of these packages." Sortation? Oh,pulleeeeeeze! mae

User	Toxic_Rayne | 2006-08-25 |
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Message	rolfl lmao lol sif dis relly matters rolf lmao lmfao... Like that? Yeah, that pisses me off too *tox*

User	joeyalphabet | 2006-08-25 |
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Message	It’s fine to me if people use abbreviations for things like message boards and IMs, but not in regular writing. As for structure, language constantly changes. Just look in a dictionary from the turn of the century versus one from, say, 1950 and you’ll see lots of changes even there. Language isn’t static, it’s fluid.