lol

[Sally Donlon]

My take on LOL, in regard to Marsha's useage ("...in
Sutherlin, [hwich, lol] is just north of Roseburg.") makes
perfect sense to me in the "laughing out loud" sense, unless
I've mistaken her meaning.

Seems to me that she is commenting on the use of one obscure
  community to locate another obscure community. Maybe this
is only really funny to folks who live in the boonies...

And maybe I've misunderstood her.

sally donlon



Mark A. Mandel wrote:

> Marsha Alley <MARSHAALLEY at MSN.COM> writes:
>
>
> Right now I'm in Sutherlin, [hwich, lol] is just north of Roseburg.
>  <<<<<
>
> I'm curious about what you mean by "lol". I picked that up as
> e-mail/Internet language for "laughing out loud", along with "rotfl" for
> "rolling on the floor laughing", and I have been used to using them only for
> when I am actually laughing out loud or, respectively, uncontrollably,
> though not actually falling off my chair.
>
> You, on the other hand, seem to be using it about as equivalent to a :-),
> indicating just that you're making a little joke here. Please understand, my
> intention is not to criticize! We seem to be having a linguistic change in
> progress here. A friend of my wife's scatters "LOL" and "ROTFL" through her
> e-mails the way I shake pepper on my eggs, almost all over.
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel
> [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
>
>