ah, so you can call someone an idiot with out getting into trouble. Good to know for work. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Funnily enough, that's the type of car that most of the thieves round my place drive - and then burn Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I've never seen that one actually used so I have no idea what it stands for either. Some of these text message acronyms must have been made up out of thin air. I haven't heard anyone say "laughing out loud" in decades. I've never heard anyone say "laughing my ass off" or "eat shit and die" at all. (Much less its slightly more elegant-looking French equivalent MMEM.) Why not everybody's favorite Mister Garrison non sequitur, UG2HAD? A lol looks like it must have been a much larger confection from which the more conveniently-sized lollies were derived. And ESAD looks like Extended Seasonal Affective Disorder, something you'd have all year long because you know there's always another winter coming up.
pwned was a mistyping of owned in online games. Like most memes on the internet, Fail and Epic Fail were developed largely by 4chan, or at least maintained by them.
I see. I had a friend who modified his company's Fortran complier so it would accept the word FOMRAT.
Well, I guess I just don't like the idea of one moron misstyping a word in a gameroom and another morons making it popular. But it doesn't make sense because: 1. You can't pronounce it. 2. It means the exact same as the original, correctly typed word, thus it doesn't add anything to the vocabulary. I guess I am just too logical. Fail on the other hand actually widens the vocabulary and people even not knowing it can accurately guess what is its intended use... Was I clear enough?
I would pronounce it as "failed". Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! It is just a fad (hopefully) and will go away...
Clearly you haven't played gears of war Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! (The main character says it fairly frequently) but yes I agree with you few people, if any, actually say "laughing out loud".
Or, the fail part of this might be the car itself. And that the owner would even consider that anyone would go to the trouble. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Internet slang amuses me. I think that old dictionaries should be archived, but that our lexicons are always changing, making the internet the perfect place to extend our language. I hear older people cry about bad grammar, and shortened phrases and words, but we don't own language. Every language evolves, sometimes becoming many new languages. Eventually, I believe that there will be only one language with several dialects. Look how many languages use other languages words in it. It may be possible that someday all of us will speak the same language, and I think that the internet or whatever the internet evolves into will have a large hand in that. It may not be for several thousand years, it could be in several hundred. Maybe just in time for another planet to make contact with us and have the cycle begin again. Imagine a world where translations were taken out of some of the conflicts we have.
Very true! Guess my sense of humour is quite limited Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
