Get up off that floor and pipe down: A Poll of Textual Guffaws

lol

lmbo

lol bcz otherwise I would be marked as a traitor

otm

anything besides lol and haha is totally unacceptable and an instant break-up in my book

haw

*dying*

fnar

heh

oh, ha!

cbpss (can't breathe please stop seriously)

zomglolwhatisevenhappeningicant

that one is good. very evocative.

you owe me a new keyboard!

lol is the one that probably belongs in the MoMA's design collection for its elegant simplicity, in spite of overuse

i think "lol" has been used so much that it has passed the point of being a cliche and is basically just a word now so i don't really worry about overusing it. orwell wrote about this phenomenon -- not in the case of "lol" obviously -- but i can't locate the quote.

ha ha. even more when shortened to just ha which expresses a lot better the actual feeling for something funny on the internet, just a quick ha! and then on to the next thing

Lol is great & I can't see why anyone would dislike it unless they hate words & laughter

Although I suspect a lot of lol-haters are dorks who still read it as "ell oh ell"

loooooooooooool

ell oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ell

ILRIP is good but would be better as BRBILRIP

lol, simple, elegant

can we talk about 'pmsl'

OMPOS = oh my poor old sides

is pissing oneself laughing a predominantly British phenomenon

also, and I'm just gonna throw this out there, what is it about the acronym that marks the user out as lowbrow in a way that lol and lmao doesn't

lol

As far as acronyms go, "lol" is the only one I use. I like the concrete-poetic aspect of it, in that the "o" could represent an opened, laughing mouth. The word just plain looks funny on the screen. (I still find it jarring on the increasing occasions when I see the word in print on actual paper.)

It's funny, just yesterday I was reminiscing about the time a favourite aunt tried to pass "TEEHEE" as a word in Scrabble.

555

The Thai version of lol in a text conversation. "5" in Thai is pronounced "ha".

lol+

would vote hahaha or some variant if it wasn't in all caps which looks godawful, so LOL i guess. ROTFL back in the day, though. That one has that great quality of internet speak in the days before anybody would ever say stuff out loud (see google glass thread) where it doesn't matter that it's really unnatural to say it out loud and looks kind of ugly and awkward on the screen and that's just how it is cause you're using some POS Usenet client and nothing looks good anyway. Always associated it with ROT13 for that reason.

(BTW - I was at a blog the other day that actually still uses ROT13 to avoid spoilers, both by the blogger and by the regular comment crew. Had no idea anybody still used that!)

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I go with Beef's deal in the last panel here.

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is basically just a word now

smsalof rip