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Hope that wasn’t me. My dislike for emoticons has somehow waned during recent years and sometimes I even use them myself when I want to be really sure that my interlocutor doesn’t misinterpret me as being serious when I am not, but I am the sort of person that has commenting policies and it’s not that improbable that this was one of them.
I don’t like lol, but I don’t mind it too badly when it’s being used where the person would genuinely be laughing out loud. When people use it as a placeholder or punctuation, which is often the case, I regard it as I would someone who actually laughs at inappropriate points in a conversation. Not positively to say the least.
I’m noticing that I like capital LOL more than lowercase lol: this is either because LOL is an acronym, or because I’ve just been primed by the two of you.
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Hope that wasn’t me. My dislike for emoticons has somehow waned during recent years and sometimes I even use them myself when I want to be really sure that my interlocutor doesn’t misinterpret me as being serious when I am not, but I am the sort of person that has commenting policies and it’s not that improbable that this was one of them.
I still hate “lol” pretty passionately, however.
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I’m ok with LOL, unless it’s someone LOLing at their own jokes.
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I don’t like lol, but I don’t mind it too badly when it’s being used where the person would genuinely be laughing out loud. When people use it as a placeholder or punctuation, which is often the case, I regard it as I would someone who actually laughs at inappropriate points in a conversation. Not positively to say the least.
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I’m noticing that I like capital LOL more than lowercase lol: this is either because LOL is an acronym, or because I’ve just been primed by the two of you.