It's funny that when I mention a age, there's HUGE post about how good you are for your age. I was the same, though ^^

I never "underestimated" or "noobied" you. Nobody does, and never will, unless you start to make posts such as "laodalda I'm teh bst!". I just stated a fact about the age level here.


Yeah, but you still needed that experience. Saw what developers go through. The hell of DirectX, which I shall never step into (thanks to the 50 character typenames..)


No you didn't, you just grasped the basic primitives. "Learning" a language means you can do anything with it. You know the tricks, can tip up and have experience.

But now, we shall return to the topic.



Fact. I'm not fond of when people reply with "lol" and think I should understand that s/he found it amusing. I'm used to feel like "lol" is just something random written without thinking.

Yes, your right, i should not have said that. Should be more like:

Anyway.. Better stick to the topic now

I would call this a grammar shift in language
of the youth culture.

Abbreviations like LoL and ROLF and the smilies
can be categorised in the same ways as expressionl like "cool".

(German examples: knorke, krass, geil)

some will vanish, some will stay in a certain age-groups.
some will get into dictionaries. (like "to google")

knorke :x

Must be some northern german slang...

Depending on the situation I use lol and/or rofl - mainly in IRC.

lol is in my eyes nothing more than a very short chuckle about something pathetic.
if i see or hear something pathetic, i lol at it. i even say it out loud sometimes...

i don't use "lol" very often in forums or in serious discussion, but in chats like MSN, ICQ or in in-game chats like in online games i use it as there is no (Mrgreen is gone... well you know what i mean) smiley there, and just the letters ": D" look more like a happy face than a grin.

Apparently, we'll have to thank all the people of Berlin for that one (EXTREMELY reliable Wikipedia to the rescue).


Not a fan of "lol", unless ist used for cynical hilarious effect. Pro tip for debates: If you're out of counterarguments, repeat the last argument of your opponent and add "lol" (or "hurr hurr" or something) to it. They sound moronic instantly! Bonus effect: Randomly capatalize certain words, and use other internetslang.

As an example:




sorry.

Using it in real life is almost always incredibly awkward for everyone, though. Sorry, Spikey.

So, internet gang, what about the other abbreviations? I'm sure the cool kids have all new ones so us old folks can't understand them anymore, right?

I knew I could count on you for a good lol, Error014!

I usually don't use "lol" for the same reason as most people: seems immature.

My brothers and I say "b-r-b" to each other in real life (be right back), and "b-t-w" (by the way) as well. It's really one of those things that started as a joke and turned into habit. My youngest brother will say "t-y" for thank you, and when he does I'll respond "n-p", where I'd normally say "no probs".

Jibb

yo dawg, i herd u liek acronyms, so we put a lol inside your lol so you can laugh out loud while you laugh out loud.

what i want to say is: "lol" isn't even the worst acronym around. "lol" at least makes sense. kinda. what i personally don't get are things like "lolololololol" and stuff. you know what i mean.

but yeah. i use lol pretty often ( i guess... spike? do i? ) in msn n stuff. but i prefer smileys, though. (and no, i won't use one now, can't find one with a bored look on it's face.)

I like meh.