yes achaziel, you do..
i cringed at the spikey... thats one thing i hate.. cutening a word by adding a y or something like that...
you know whan your comic book/book7movie writer is an idiot when he does that...
words like totally or whatdiddy or whatever in every sentence...

oh and in sweden its its pronounced lorle...
the o is pronunced like in score...

That's what we use here in finland too, for comical touch


Nope, ö is pronounced normally, like in german language the "möbel".

It's 'leul' .. but that sounds close enough anyway.

( phonetically 'lul' in german would sound like 'loel' to us too by the way. )

i like lol if your really laughing about something funny , but i do not like people who use lol after every other word they type

i have another meaning for lol -> lick o lick baby

I totally a agree and same here. For me it definitely doesn't have the literal meaning of 'laughing out loud', but rather 'it made me smile'. I very much doubt it still has the literal meaning of laughing out loud for most people, as it would be stupid to constantly say.

It's sort of similar to this smiley or . Indicating you're having a good time, sort of. Or if something was pathetically lame, respond to it.

I don't know if I use it often or not, but I do think I prefer smileys. But in chatboxes I definitely use lol too, as it's equally as stupid to post a dozen smileys in one line too. :p

One more thing.. people often underestimate the importance of adding smileys or even 'lol' to a post though, as words can easily be misunderstood if you're assuming someone isn't laughing when he was in fact laughing or vice versa.

It has little to do with childish behavior, but more with clarity... Same rules apply as in real life, some one who's smileys 24/7 can't be taken seriously nor trusted, same goes for chat conversations or comments on a forum.