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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 04, 2019, 06:36:01 pm --- :laugh: LOL! (by the way, I hear LOL doesn't mean laugh out loud anymore). ???
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 04, 2019, 07:11:03 pm --- ??? What does it mean, then?
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--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 06, 2019, 10:49:27 am ---They say it's an expression of irony. Those Millennials; they sure do like irony.
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serious crayons:
I've heard of older people thinking it meant lots of love. Also, an older Brokie once said he initially thought it meant lots of luck. So someone said they were going to the dentist, and he replied LOL.
I was curious, so I looked it up and found the passage below, from the Chronicle of Higher Education. I've noticed the hahaha thing, and like it better -- I've never been a huge fan of LOL because I think it's rarely literally true. I've noticed people putting lol at the end of posts to indicate they're kidding. (EMC stands for electronically mediated communication.)
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/03/01/txtng-rules/
LOL no longer means ‘laughing out loud’ (so the OED gets credit for including LOL in the third edition, but the definition is already out of date). To show laughter, EMC now often relies on “hahaha” (students tell me that you need at least three ha’s to show laughter if they are not capitalized). LOL is now a way to flag that a message is meant to be funny (similar to jk—‘just kidding’) or to signal irony. LOL can also be a way to acknowledge that a writer has received a text—a written version of a nod of the head and a smile (“a chuckle at most,” one student told me).
But my sons, 23- and 24-yo millennials, sometimes say LOL to acknowledge something funny I've said in a text. Maybe they just does it to humor me, knowing a boomer is likely to be behind on the latest EMC.
Front-Ranger:
A friend at church was admiring my purse today. It's one that used to belong to my mom and is bright turquoise. I said it needed a little sprucing up because the turquoise was wearing off around the edges. She said she would use turquoise duct tape. "You're such a practical person, Lori," replied I, and the Brokieism was in the back of my mind. But then she said, "Bubble gum and duct tape, that's me!" So that really is an expression that exists!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 06, 2019, 05:29:23 pm --- But then she said, "Bubble gum and duct tape, that's me!" So that really is an expression that exists!
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Or ... she's an undercover Brokie!
CellarDweller:
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