You wrote:
Third, LOLOLOLOLOL is not the electronic representation of laughter. "LOL" is an acronym, standing for "Laughing Out Loud". Because people are used to repeating "Hahahahahahaha." I'm sure it seemed only natural to type "LOLOLOLOL" but that doesn't mean it makes sense.
Oh yes, it does. How does "hahahaha" make
"more sense" than LOLOLOL? Psychologically, the
repetition of the "ha's" is a manifestation of
the inherent psychosis in our psyche, triggered
when the brain fails to make any sense of what
has just been said. And while LOL began
as an acronym, it has become a word, the same
way that DOS (as in Denial Of Service) has become
a word. To be precise, LOL has become a laughter
word, much as "ha" used to be a laughter word
way back during the time of the Saxons, and only
became "hahahaha" (repeated) after it has been
internalized and subjected to the said psychosis.
Ask any online chat veteran, and you will find
out that LOL has been internalized into a word,
and therefore can be treated as a repeating
laughter word the same way "ha" has been
internalized and is now naturally repeated during
laughter. The "real meaning" of LOL is about as
interesting as the etymology of "ha" in the
kilogram edition of the Oxford Dictionary, that is
to say, not at all. It is nothing but a historical
footnote only pedants care about.
Now, about ROTFL, everybody and his neighbour's
dog knows that extended ROTFL laughter more
resembles my subject line (which in case you
didn't realize stands for "Rolling On The Floor
Laughing My Ass And Head Off And Picking It Up
Again So It Won't Roll Away", as anybody who's
been on online chats for more than 5 years knows)
than any form of repetition. Unless the laugher
happens to strike that psychosis mentioned above,
which happens when you roll on the floor laughing
out loud, in which case it becomes ROTFLOLOLOLOL.
Which has a nice sound to it, as it rhymes with
"rolling".
Now excuse me while I go and ROTFLOLOLOLing
with my fellow chat aficiandos.
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