txt abrvs in speech?

[Neal Whitman]

I've heard of LOL being used in the plural, as in doing something "for
lols." In particular there was an article about Internet trolls that
mentioned this. Urban Dictionary gives some examples that could be spoken:

Used when something is too funny to deserve only one lol.
Person #1: My Grandmother was savaged by wolves today
Person #2: Lols, sounds fun.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lols

Neal

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> A student in our freshman seminar in Varieties of English (Raffaella
> Zanuttini and I are co-instructors) is interested in tracking down
> any previous research on the incorporation of texting abbreviations
> (or, less commonly, acronyms) in speech.  Classic constructed
> examples appear in the Cingular/AT&T commercials viewable at
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySR3hpieiQc&feature=related
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> The student has already collected material in response to a
> questionnaire he posted via Facebook but doesn't want to ignore
> previous empirical investigations when he writes up his results.
> Thanks for any pointers anyone can provide.
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