LOL and Other Insults to the English Language

Sammie Thomas, known here as @sammielee46, says she hates acronyms.

Since the advent of chat rooms and smartphones, everyday conversations are now over-saturated with lazy, annoying, unsophisticated abbreviations of what were once actual words.

"I write, so I love our language, I love what we can achieve with just twenty-six letters, but I also despise what some people do with those letters. LOL. See what I did there?

"LOL is the most overused acronym ever. In the world.

"My mum, when I was younger, thought it meant “lots of love” and, to be honest, that would have been better than “laugh out loud.” I have an issue with this one. It pisses me off. Yes I said it out loud, only I didn’t, because I am typing here, not speaking. Therein lies problem.

"Someone messages me, I respond, and they type back "LOL."

"Why? Did you really laugh out loud? Because I didn’t hear you, and what I said wasn’t even fucking funny."

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