Anyone over the age of three (but under the age of me) knows that LOL is the internent abbreviation for “Laughing out Loud.” There are a whole slew of these abbreviations which makes chatting and IM’ing even that much more impersonal. But in an age where the thumb is mightier than the pen, I can understand the necessity.
Everyone knows:
ROFLMAO
BRB
AFAIAC
AFK
HTH
IMHO
OMG
But I have a confession for both of you. Today, in a normal 3-dimensional-land conversation, I said “LOL!” Yup, I said, “Ell-Oh-Ell” when someone said a joke. I said it out loud. The worse part of it was, the person I said it to, did not know what LOL meant. She asked me what I just said. I repeated it, embarrassed, and she still had no idea.
Question for BoMR: Do you have a favorite internet abbreviation?
What is funny is that when I worked on the ambulance, we used a ton of abbreviations (this was in the day when the daily newspaper was the internet). My favorite was: LOLFDGB (Little Old Lady, Fall Down, Go Boom)