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Germany
Local time: 06:31
English to German
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New word LOLig Jul 22, 2011

My sister and I (we're from Germany with lots of English speaking friends) have taken the word LOL to the next level. If something is really funny, it's now LOLig.
 
Nicole Schnell
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United States
Local time: 21:31
English to German
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In memoriam
"LOL" can be found everywhere... Jul 22, 2011






I like "LOLig", BTW...

 
Dave Bindon
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Greece
Local time: 07:31
Greek to English
In memoriam
Greeklish Jul 24, 2011

If the spread of LOL and ROFL etc. annoys some English speakers, imagine how annoyed Greek-speakers are...

In the early days of e-mails and texts, the Greek alphabet wasn't supported. By necessity "Greeklish" developed: Greek words transliterated (roughly, without any consistent rules) into the Latin alphabet using English pronunciation as the basis. Soon, even the Greeklish became text-speak Greeklish using abbreviations not used in standard Greek.

These days it's perfec... See more
If the spread of LOL and ROFL etc. annoys some English speakers, imagine how annoyed Greek-speakers are...

In the early days of e-mails and texts, the Greek alphabet wasn't supported. By necessity "Greeklish" developed: Greek words transliterated (roughly, without any consistent rules) into the Latin alphabet using English pronunciation as the basis. Soon, even the Greeklish became text-speak Greeklish using abbreviations not used in standard Greek.

These days it's perfectly easy to use the Greek alphabet in texts, e-mails, and posts on forums, but a high percentage of Greeks continue to use Greeklish. I have Greek friends who claim that they don't even know how to type in Greek. And because they never write in real Greek they have completely forgotten how to spell.

I'm happy to use LOL, but I refuse to use Greeklish! ▲ Collapse
 
Michael Grant
Michael Grant
Japan
Local time: 14:31
Japanese to English
CNN needs to educate its news anchors... Jul 25, 2011

I was a bit dismayed yesterday when CNN anchorwoman, Natalie Allen, transliterated the LOL at the end of one of the Norway bomber’s internet postings as ‘lots of love’ (?!!)... surely the commonly accepted meaning is ‘laugh out loud’, isn’t it?

It made her sound so out-of-touch with the times!

MGrant
 


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