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We live in Czechia and my SO is teacher in local school. She asked a 6th grade girl what she wants to draw today and she literally responded "IDK". It's kind off weird how internet slang is slowly merging in everyday IRL vocabulary.
When I was younger, there were people who would actually say lol. I wouldn't say it's new, but I think the advent of the internet has certainly accelerated some aspects of linguistic evolution.
It would be fascinating to be a fly on the wall in a couple hundred years' time to see where English goes from here.
I do this, I hate it, but I can't get rid of it so I've started to accept it.
Lol
Yeah, we say lol to each other as a joke when something is "funny" or as a joke in it self, but never as a response to someone outside the family circle or in formal setting. Bot that may change too in the future.
The internet is for sure speeding things up. I wonder how will our (Czech) language look like in 10, 20, 30 years. I am all for simplification but sometimes it just feels weird :D
for me "lol" and "lmao" are desperately trying to replace non-lexical sounds of amusement like "hah!" and "eeey!"
I mean it's kinda same when people say www instead of world wide web, even though the word has less syllable than the letter
All hail "dub dub dub"
Wub wub wub
I didn't learn that www stood for world wide web until I was 19
There will be a generation that didn't know lol stand for laugh out loud but will lol along.
as in "aye dee kay", or simply saying "i dunno" in english despite being in czech school?
I remember around 2015 people were saying ell oh ell
Like when people say "LOL"? It's so fucking weird to me