[lg policy] Cyber-laugh: Everything old is new again

[Dennis Baron]

There's a new post on the Web of Language: http:bit.ly/weblan

Cyber-laugh: everything old is new again, haha

A New York Times report about a spoof of the disjointed television speech that Muammar Qaddafi made to the Libyan people as protests against his regime were gathering steam notes that one viewer signaled his approval of the YouTube clip by "sign[ing] off with the international cyber-laugh, 'Hahaha'" (Isabel Kershner, "Arab World Embraces Israeli's YouTube Spoof of Qaddafi Rant," Feb. 27, 2011, nytimes.com). "Cyber-laugh" may be new, but "haha" is older than English itself.

Read the whole post on the Web of Language:  http://bit.ly/eNZWE1


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Dennis Baron
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Department of English                    
University of Illinois 
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