FARK.com: (6117575) "Your grandmother has just passed away. LOL"

If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.

		"Your grandmother has just passed away. LOL" (bbc.co.uk)		97
		More: Amusing, internet entrepreneur

• • •

16826 clicks; posted to Main » on 15 Apr 2011 at 12:47 PM | Favorite | share:

Share this link:

URL:

http://fark.com/go/6117575

Bookmark:

Article Comments close

97 Comments (+0 »)

Archived thread

First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all

miss diminutive		2011-04-15 03:31:44 AM

The English language isn't set in stone and has been changing and evolving for hundreds of years. Deal with it, language purists.

BurnShrike		2011-04-15 08:01:37 AM

miss diminutive: The English language isn't set in stone and has been changing and evolving for hundreds of years. Deal with it, language purists.

STFU

miss diminutive		2011-04-15 08:05:09 AM

BurnShrike: STFU

knowyourmeme.com

BurnShrike		2011-04-15 08:27:21 AM

I think there's a fine balance that needs to be kept.

Language does change, and will continue to change. I have nothing against it evolving because that's natural for a language to do.

I just hate it when people use that as an excuse for not learning proper spelling or grammar. That's just laziness.

Having said that, I see no reason to keep "lol" out of the dictionary other than that it's become so overused that it doesn't mean what it originally did.

media.tumblr.com

Sybarite		2011-04-15 09:05:49 AM

miss diminutive: The English language isn't set in stone and has been changing and evolving for hundreds of years. Deal with it, language purists.

pwned

miss diminutive		2011-04-15 09:24:40 AM

BurnShrike: I just hate it when people use that as an excuse for not learning proper spelling or grammar. That's just laziness.

Agreed. Some of the emails I receive from friends and, even more disturbingly, co-workers make me cringe with their spelling and grammar errors. Like you said, most of the time it's simply a case of laziness. I honestly think more than half of the people at work don't know the difference between to and too, it drives me nuts.

But adding new words to the dictionary that have become part of everyday language is completely fine with me. Since 'lol' has become so prevalent it deserves a place along with 'truthiness' and 'Y2K' as words that have gone beyond their original meaning.

BurnShrike		2011-04-15 09:31:43 AM

miss diminutive: I honestly think more than half of the people at work don't know the difference between to and too, it drives me nuts.

Theirs a difference between to and too?

Walker		2011-04-15 09:34:07 AM

You think the BBC would do it's research, or even read Fark, and see that "OMG" has been around since 1917

miss diminutive		2011-04-15 09:36:49 AM

BurnShrike: Theirs a difference between to and too?

Yes they're is.

BurnShrike		2011-04-15 09:53:44 AM

miss diminutive: BurnShrike: Theirs a difference between to and too?

Yes they're is.

Oh, eye sea.

miss diminutive		2011-04-15 10:04:15 AM

BurnShrike: miss diminutive: BurnShrike: Theirs a difference between to and too?

Yes they're is.

Oh, eye sea.

i385.photobucket.com

jaylectricity		2011-04-15 12:08:37 PM

"OMG! LOL's in the OED. LMAO!"

What is this, I don't even...

If you find the above string of letters utterly unintelligible, you are clearly an internet "noob". Let me start again.

Golly gosh! The popular initialism LOL (laughing out loud) has been inducted into the canon of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary. Blimey! What is going on?

Nope...try again.

impaler		2011-04-15 12:48:27 PM

BurnShrike: Having said that, I see no reason to keep "lol" out of the dictionary other than that it's become so overused that it doesn't mean what it originally did.

what you mean: "What you just said is so ridiculous and obviously absurd, I'm sitting here joyfully laughing in my chair."
What you actually did: *punched the monitor while screaming expletives*

Clete Orris		2011-04-15 12:49:58 PM

EABOD

I am Ahab		2011-04-15 12:51:15 PM

*Paging meowsaidthedog to thread #6117575, meowsaidthedog to thread 6117575. Thank You.*

Mr Rusty Shackleford		2011-04-15 12:51:45 PM

First saw it on efnet in the early 90s, probably started with IRC as well as many of the others.

PumpUpDaFark		2011-04-15 12:52:12 PM

As the Verizon guy's grandmother was being lowered in the grave, someone nearby him whispered "Can you hear me now?"

Pants full of macaroni!!		2011-04-15 12:52:17 PM

/oblig

you_idiot		2011-04-15 12:52:28 PM

Heh, this makes me LOL out loud. Or LOLOL as I like to say.

otto the bull		2011-04-15 12:53:38 PM

!LOLLERCAUST!

Bit'O'Gristle		2011-04-15 12:53:41 PM

Well..as one can see...the english language (which isn't true english, but a bastardized "kings english") is a conglomeration of different languages, I'm not gonna get all butt hurt over a few short cuts. LOL transmits a moment of laughter, and even though it is abused at times, it's here, and here to stay. If you don't like it, then stfu noob.

HarpuaMM		2011-04-15 12:54:24 PM

Mart-tiiiin		2011-04-15 12:54:25 PM

Clete Orris: EABOD

farm4.static.flickr.com

cig-mkr		2011-04-15 12:54:42 PM

FTA: And yes, I do say 'LOL' out loud
Right up there with ATM machine.

Sin_City_Superhero		2011-04-15 12:55:51 PM

Can't believe it took this long

otto the bull		2011-04-15 12:56:21 PM

LeroyBourne		2011-04-15 12:56:33 PM

I recall when Beyonce basically got the word 'bootylicous' in there. No one really uses it anymore, but I'm still trying to get the term 'juicy caboosy' in there.

mhd		2011-04-15 12:56:53 PM

miss diminutive: The English language isn't set in stone and has been changing and evolving for hundreds of years. Deal with it, language purists.

Léogere!

bump		2011-04-15 12:57:25 PM

OMGROTFLOLEBONICSWASBADBUTTHISISOKBBQSAUCE!!!

Clete Orris		2011-04-15 12:57:56 PM

Mart-tiiiin: Clete Orris: EABOD

LOL

dragonchild		2011-04-15 12:59:37 PM

BurnShrike: Theirs a difference between to and too?

Yes, "to" has one "o", and "too" has too of them.

miss diminutive		2011-04-15 01:01:24 PM

dragonchild: BurnShrike: Theirs a difference between to and too?

Yes, "to" has one "o", and "too" has too of them.

Nice.

Barakku		2011-04-15 01:02:40 PM

Rotfl I'm lawling mao @this headline

Sarcastica75		2011-04-15 01:03:58 PM

As a purist I prefer to spell it out. El oh el.

AnubisMan		2011-04-15 01:03:58 PM

i dont undestand wat teh big deal is abot speling and gramer. i am dont need to rpove anything to u ppl. Lol

Sin_City_Superhero		2011-04-15 01:05:49 PM

dragonchild: BurnShrike: Theirs a difference between to and too?

Yes, "to" has one "o", and "too" has too of them.

LAUGHTER OL

URAPNIS		2011-04-15 01:06:06 PM

If I actually laugh, you get a "Ha!".
If I don't, you get "LOL".
But that's just me.

BurnShrike		2011-04-15 01:07:18 PM

dragonchild: BurnShrike: Theirs a difference between to and too?

Yes, "to" has one "o", and "too" has too of them.

Well done. That made me make a noise of laughter at an audible level.

URAPNIS		2011-04-15 01:07:55 PM

dragonchild: BurnShrike: Theirs a difference between to and too?

Yes, "to" has one "o", and "too" has too of them.

Ha!

ConConHead		2011-04-15 01:09:58 PM

WTF does KMT mean? Kiss my teeth? I'm confused. Who uses this term?!

jclaggett		2011-04-15 01:10:00 PM

miss diminutive: BurnShrike: miss diminutive: BurnShrike: Theirs a difference between to and too?

Yes they're is.

Oh, eye sea.

This pic made me LOL

Worst.Fark handle. ever.		2011-04-15 01:11:39 PM

Just for you, otto the bull.

27.media.tumblr.com

DubyaHater		2011-04-15 01:12:39 PM

tl; dr

TeddyRooseveltsMustache		2011-04-15 01:15:09 PM

Worst.Fark handle. ever.: Just for you, otto the bull.

I actually did lol at that. For real.

Hitler's face is just so funny.

dragonchild		2011-04-15 01:15:25 PM

I didn't know there was an anti-rage guy. Hard to keep up with teh Internets.

CygnusDarius		2011-04-15 01:17:10 PM

I have no problem with this, as long as it's written. Yes, I've known adults that use LOL or OMG in speech.

Makes me wanna stab them in the liver with a butterknife.

Slaves2Darkness		2011-04-15 01:17:40 PM

Poop coming out! LOL.

Benjimin_Dover		2011-04-15 01:21:11 PM

BurnShrike: I just hate it when people use that as an excuse for not ~~learning~~using proper spelling or grammar. That's just laziness.

Fixed it for you.

Sarcastica75		2011-04-15 01:22:01 PM

Worst.Fark handle. ever.: Just for you, otto the bull.

el oh el!

Beanlet		2011-04-15 01:23:05 PM

I love it when something I used in my 20s becomes the craze for kids younger than my 20-something kids.. and those kids decide it is their own, us old folks can't use it any longer.

Get over yourselves, kidlets.. in the 80s, you weren't even a gleam, but we were playing video games, writing little programs on our Atari or Commodore computers and typing LOL and =) to our friends over 300 baud modems.

This is an actual text I got from a CNA that worked for my family, "ok promise, il col u 2 remind 2. K c u." If the kids want to claim THIS as their own, that'd be ok by me. But get off my LOL lawn.

/doesn't really use lol much now.. it's mostly "HAH!" if I found something so funny that I should express it.

Displayed 50 of 97 comments

First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all

Redisplay/refresh comments

This thread is closed to new comments.