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Just letting off steam!
« on: Monday 28 February 05 22:24 GMT (UK) »
Does nobody possess a dictionary any more, or can they just not be bothered to use it?  Why are people asking the meaning of occupations that you would find in any decent dictionary?  And why do so many people not look at what they've typed, giving the impression that they're not literate?
I know, I know, tolerance.  But while I'm at it, why do people use that awful expression "LOL"?  I had to ask a young colleague what it meant.
You can tell I'm not in a good mood.
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Re: Just letting off steam!
« Reply #1 on: Monday 28 February 05 22:56 GMT (UK) »
Don't worry, I just asked my daughter what "LOL" meant and to be honest I wasn't that impressed  ! !
I, too appreciated good spelling and grammar, however, I am rather lax myself on times - but always like to attribute it to the odd glass of wine in the late evening - sorry!

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Re: Just letting off steam!
« Reply #2 on: Monday 28 February 05 22:58 GMT (UK) »
Hi Suttontrust,

I quite agree with you, it's something I've often thought about.

It must be something to do with our age ;D

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Re: Just letting off steam!
« Reply #3 on: Monday 28 February 05 22:58 GMT (UK) »
Ahh Sutton it must be a bad day  :'(

I like LOL  :-[ it's better than ROFL and very much the same as AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH or GRRRRRRRRR which seem to be the ones you are looking for  ;)

Can I make you smile and risk laughing out loud?

All the best,
Pam
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Re: Just letting off steam!
« Reply #4 on: Monday 28 February 05 23:00 GMT (UK) »
My favourite tv programme is Grumpy Old Women - but then, you already guessed that.
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Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
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Re: Just letting off steam!
« Reply #5 on: Monday 28 February 05 23:29 GMT (UK) »
A lady after my own heart. Had this very discussion at work today.
You and I are no longer young at heart. LOL is a young person's thing - I dislike it intensely and I'm not in a bad mood.

However,that pales into insignificance when I ponder on the use of the word 'of' - as in - 'He must of lived there' etc etc instead of the word 'have'  Do these same people say  'Of you got any' instead of 'Have you got any'  I don't think so. Lazy speech is now creeping into the written word and there is nothing we can do about it.

It is the evolution of the English language - much as we detest it and in a couple of hundred years, maybe even less, we (if we come back, that is)  wouldn't be able to understand much of our language- much in the same way that we wouldn't have recognised the English language in the Middle ages.

Thak you, Suttontrust, I enjoyed that ;D ;D ;D ;D

Tricia

Here's another one - the use of the word 'well' 

I bet he's well glad he did that.
I'm well pleased.
Etc .etc. Come on - hands up - how many use similiar expressions using the word 'well'

I'm quite nice, really ;) ;)  Tricia
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Nottinghamshire, Mansfield:- Baxter
Buckinghamshire: Charlesworth, Fowler
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Re: Just letting off steam!
« Reply #6 on: Monday 28 February 05 23:39 GMT (UK) »
Unfortunately I'm one of the offenders of using lol and lmao - to much time spent in chatrooms  ::)

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Re: Just letting off steam!
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 01 March 05 00:06 GMT (UK) »
Pam LOL your pussy cat is hilarious.  Is it a case of I refuse to have my teeth cleaned with a battery operated toothbrush?

I always put LOL at the end of my emails.  I always thought it was Lots of Love, until I discovered it meant Laugh Out Loud, my friends must have wondered what I meant especially if it was a serious email   ;D

Personally I wouldn't dream of hurting someone on this site simply because they don't use the correct vocabulary or use the dictionary to look up occupations,  (it might not have occurred to them that the answer was in the dictionary), or because they enjoy using dialect or initials.

Some people might find typing difficult and so get words mixed up, some might find spelling difficult, or how to express themselves.  Lets face it ladies, nobody is perfect ...

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Bates Hindley Lancs
Bowyer Altrincham Cheshire
Cunliffe Hindley
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Re: Just letting off steam!
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 01 March 05 00:34 GMT (UK) »
<chuckle, chuckle>

I must admit that "LOL" makes me smile because in welsh it means pretty close to "what fuss/rubbish" ("hen lol").

These abbreviations are new perhaps to the internet - but different abbreviations have been around back in the days of the telegram, and adopted nowadays by amateur radio enthusiasts (like "hehe" which is very easy to write in morse as .... ..   .... .." which is a laugh instead of "haha" which is a much more cumbersome .... .-  .... .- ).

Now we see the "text message generation" (which I must say I'm a part of I suppose) using "m8" for "mate" and other crazy abbreviations.

A language is said to be dead without change, so thankfully we are finding ways to communicate, quicker, and in a way that describes what we feel.... or is it...  ???

Is it the age of the smilie?  ::)

Trystan
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