Comments on: Evolution doesn’t count when it comes to bastardisation of the English language

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:49:41 +0000

Wow. Really? Laughed Out Loud – taking the first letters of each word makes it an acronym. An abbreviation is the shortening of words.

No one is asking to “keep English in a box”, we’d just like it used in it’s correct form and not:
“How are you lol. Been up to much lol.Mwuah xxx =)”

You may also like to seek help for your obvious anger issues.

By: ian

ian — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:14:32 +0000

can i buy the badge? i’ll wear that every day.

By: Judas

Judas — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:13:24 +0000

I don’t speak Acronymish – would you be so kind as to provide a translation please Jerome?

By: Jerrome

Jerrome — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:47:52 +0000

Wait, what, Judas? Did you just post a YouTube link as a high-tech way to say “YBT”? Are you priding yourself on having trolled here?

By: Judas

Judas — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:43:31 +0000

Andrew, did you buy a badge?

I would humbly submit that you did not.

Furthermore, I would also suggest that you are a serial abuser of Internet acronyms.

I am glad to have pressed your buttons.

You might appreciate this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdAoQvqh7eY

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By: idrewthis

idrewthis — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:24:01 +0000

First of all. Get over it.
Secondly, look up the difference between an acronym and an abbreviation. None of those you listed (with the possible exception of GNU) was an acronym. They were abbreviations.
Thirdly, it’s slang. It has its place. Language is used by cultures and sub-cultures to reinforce belonging to that culture. Some words (and acronyms and abbreviations) borne out of sub-culture slang are long-standing entries in the Oxford (‘OK’ springs to mind; and I bet that pissed a lot of older people off when the kids started using it and they couldn’t work out what it meant). For the record, LOL and lol both appear in the Fourth Edition of Australia’s Maquarie Dictionary (probably more progressive and descriptive than the Oxford.

You can’t keep English in a box. It’s too big. And there a like a million words; you’re getting worked up over just one of them.
So just relax and go with it. If you don’t like lol, don’t use it. It won’t die a slow and natural death if you reinforce its existence by devoting a blog post to it.

By: Judas

Judas — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:22:37 +0000

I am afraid that you have completely lost me there.

Perhaps it was the construction of the first sentence.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:16:13 +0000

Weird, I could have sworn you said somewhere that you studied language. Shome mishtake, shurely?