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Internet slangs and their influence
Internet slang is that internetusers have popularized, and in many cases, have coined. Such terms often originate with the purpose of saving keystrokes. Many people use the same abbreviationsin textingand instant messaging, and social networking websites. acronyms, keyboard symbolsand shortened words are often used as methods of abbreviation in Internet slang. New dialects of slang, such as lol speak, develop as in group morerather than time savers. In leet speak, letters may be replaced by characters of similar appearance. For example, leet is often written as l33t or 1337.
LOL, an abbreviation forlaughing out loud,orlaugh out loud,is a common element of internet slang. It was used historically on usenetbut is now widespread in other forms of, computer mediated communication and even face to facecommunication. It is one of many initialsfor expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initials for more emphatic expressions of laughter such asLMAO ("laughing my arse/ass off"),ROTFL ("roll(ing) on the floor laughing") orROFL ("roll(ing) on [the] floor laughing"), andBWL("bursting with laughter", above which there is "no greater compliment" according to technology columnist (larry magid).Other unrelated expansions include the now mostly historical "lots of luck" or "lots of love" used in letter-writing. On the other hand the word lol is named for at least 84 persons in U.S.A by their parents. the list of acronyms "grows by the month"and they are collected along with emotionsand smileysinto folkdictionaries that are circulated informally amongst users of Usenet, IRC, and other forms of (textual) computer-mediated communication.These initials are controversial, and several authors recommend against their use, either in general or in specific contexts such as business communications.
Laccetti (professor of humanities )and Molski, in their essay entitledThe Lost Art of Writing,are critical of the terms, predicting reduced chances of employment for students who use such slang, stating that, "Unfortunately for these students, their bosses will not be 'lol' when they read a report that lacks proper punctuation and grammar, has numerous misspellings, various made-up words, and silly acronyms." Fondiller and Neronein their style manual assert that "professional or business communication should never be careless or poorly constructed" whether one is writing an electronic mail message or an article for publication, and warn against the use of smiley's and these abbreviations, stating that they are "no more than e-mail slang and have no place in business communication".
david crystal notes that use ofLOL is not necessarily genuine,just as the use of smiley faces or grins is not necessarily genuine, posing the rhetorical question "How many people are actually 'laughing out loud' when they send LOL?". Franziniconcurs, stating that there is as yet no research that has determined the percentage of people who are actually laughing out loud when they write "LOL".
The three most popular slangs of the internet used worldwide are lol (laugh out loud) ,bfn (bye for now) and imho (in my humble opinion).
