remember when lol meant “laughing out loud” instead of “this is to indicate that this brief text isn’t hostile”

allthingslinguistic:

pochowek:

beaky-peartree:

remember when lol meant “laughing out loud” instead of “this is to indicate that this brief text isn’t hostile”

remember when lol meant “this brief text isn’t hostile” instead of “this brief text is in fact horrendously hostile and very passive aggressive”

There’s a linguistics paper about lol that explains both of these meanings!