LOL. not.

Ohmygawd.

I'm am so pissed off by sime childish teenager who's probably only about 14 or 15 years old. =.=

Okay. I admit I'm childish also la, considering that I'm still playing ASIASOFT's AUDITION game at this age of mine.


The conversation went something like this:

Me: I missed!

Childish Boy: lol

Me: you laughed at me =.=

CB: no i didnt

Me: yes, u just said "lol".

CB: ya

Me: "lol" is 'laugh-out-loud'.

CB: no it isn't

Me: EVERYONE knows it is la (well, of cos except for this kid)

CB: then everybody laugh out all the time meh (that's bcos everyone in AUDITION says lol, or lols, or other sort, when they think that something is funny. It had been so freaking OVERLY-used.)

Me: zzz

CB: its a Singlish slang

Me: even the Americans and the people in England use "lol" loh.

And then ke kicked me out of the room!!!! Wth =.=

Wanting to go back to that same room to give that childish kid a lecture about how RUDE it is to kick people out of the room, I furiously typed in the command: /go24 (That was room number 24.)

Me: TMD

Me: you kicked me

CB: no i didnt

Me: then

Me: ghost ah?

CB: I just double-clicked 2 times on you (that was how you are supposed to kick people out of a room)

I was SOOO freaking pissed off that I angrily exited the game and came to blog instead.

My main concern is not just ME being pissed-off.

I mean, you don't even KNOW what's LOL?!

Ohmygosh.

You've been using it all this while and think that its a Singlish slang?!

Goodness gracious me.

If you don't even know what a SIMPLE "LOL" is, then you definitely don't know what's "ROFL"!





I found this interesting piece of article of where "LOL" just now when I googled for 'origin of LOL':

LOL was first coined on a BBS called Viewline in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in the early-to-mid-80s. A friend of mine who went by Sprout (and I believe he still does) had said something so funny in the teleconference room that I found myself truly laughing out loud, echoing off the walls of my kitchen. That's when "LOL" was first used.

We of course had ways of portraying amusement in chat rooms before that (>grin< >laugh< *smile*) and the gamut of smiley faces, but I felt that none of them really got across the fact that the other person just made you feel foolish by laughing out loud in a room all by yourself (or worse, with other family members in another room, thinking you quite odd!)

The use of the phrase LOL spread quickly around Viewline, but it wasn't until a bunch of us got free GEnie accounts that it really became popular. GEnie, back then, was one of the big online services (with Compuserve and
Prodigy), and the hundreds of chatrooms included trivia rooms (run by script
bots -- quite fancy at the time!) A bunch of us Viewliners found these rooms
and, of course, our jargon mixed with the regulars of GEnie. (One thing that I
took from there, and still use today, is "my" smiley -- *:^) )

Of course, LOL was introduce to this new group, who took to it quickly; I always emphasized (and still do) that it was meant to be used *only* if you truly Laughed Out Loud... a smirk, smile or giggle just didn't cut it. These GEnie users soon
started mutating it: Rolling On Floor Laughing was borne by the GEnie people.

Today, of course, we see many variations, and I'm amazed daily whenever I
see "LOL" appear in obscure places. The "true" use of LOL has been tainted; people use it in the same way that *grin* or "hahahaha" might, but I guess this is the evolution of words and language. I admit that every so often I try to explain to people that LOL has a specific meaning or usage, but most scoff when
I explain the origin. 

If I had any idea that such a thing would spread, I would have saved the original conversation that led to the acronym's inception. Alas, I don't even recall what was so funny! While I can picture in my mind where I was when it happened, I can't narrow the time down any further.

I don't expect you to believe this, really, as so many others don't. Still, it ought to be written out so there's at least a record of it somewhere on the
Internet.

-- Wayne Pearson

Yeap. So all thanks to this Wayne guy who wrote this and recorded down so that we can all know what 'LOL' really is, and where did it come from really.