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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 07, 2019, 09:39:54 am ---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means ‘laughing out loud’ (so the OED gets credit for including LOL in the third edition, but the definition is already out of date).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.
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I guess this explains why a coworker of mine has been using "hahaha." She has three daughters, all in the age range, I think, of, say 18 to 25. I guess she picked it up from her daughters.
Jeff Wrangler:
Last Saturday night I told a friend I needed to get to bed because I was sleeping on my feet like a horse.
Front-Ranger:
Working on my kitchen, we had a hitch in our giddy-up when my friend took out the kitchen sink. The pipes, valves, and cables underneath are kind of brittle. And the hardware store didn't have the right fittings to fix it. So, we tried using plastic, foil, and finally duct tape, which worked. So that led me to say, "Between baling wire and duct tape, we'll fix this thing!" I know it's not an exact Brokieism, but provoked a lot of laughs.
Speaking of duct tape, I have my phone sitting in a roll of it right now. It makes a fine phone stand!
Front-Ranger:
The minister brought up duct tape at church today. He said that duct tape works to fix many things, but apparently it can't be used on ducts. Won't stick to them. He was talking about fixing things as compared to restoring them. There's a Brokie lesson in there somewhere.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 22, 2019, 10:16:21 pm ---The minister brought up duct tape at church today. He said that duct tape works to fix many things, but apparently it can't be used on ducts. Won't stick to them. He was talking about fixing things as compared to restoring them. There's a Brokie lesson in there somewhere.
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Did he say if you can't fix it, you gotta stand it?
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