Lingo of the week: "Lolz"
We all know those people. They use "lol" like they use um or an awkward silence. In fact, next to "k" there is probably no other word that we hate seeing in a text message. For instance, you text your best friend some long story about how you were driving home for the weekend and you looked in the car next to you and it was some random boy that you met at a party and prayed you would never see again and all you get back is the dreaded, "lol." Other people use "lol" like it's a space, comma, or period. They legitimately use it to break up their thoughts like any form of punctuation would do. I know you hate this, I do too, however, the use to "lolz" I will argue is perfectly acceptable.
This may remind you of those people who "t3xt lyk3 th1s" or change their name on Myspace to something like alliiii dayyyy. Whatever it reminds you of, please hear me out. The use of "lolz" adds a funny ironic twist, that is a little acknowledgement of how you could be texting or perhaps how you used to text. However, it also is way less annoying than that overused lol because it does add that humorous aspect. How many people are actually "laughing out loud?" probably none. When you add the z though, the acronym loses its "laughing out loud" meaning and just tells the other person that you think what they are saying is funny. Finally, when you find yourself reading a text message out loud and you come upon the word "lol" there is always a quick internal debate. Do you read it as "L. O. L.?" or do you read it how it sounds, "lawl?" The word lolz must always be read as "lawlz" not only because it rolls off the tongue so well, but also because it's not an acronym.
