The Evolution of LOL

<p>No point in saying “gay” when you can just say “dumb” or “stupid.” Never quite understood that.</p>

<p>Cody… </p>

<p>I agree with you. (Sort of).</p>

<p>*Random cheesy sitcom parade in the background".</p>

<p>^ Whoahhh this is a monumental moment</p>

<p>The Spartans were big on homosexual relationships. Or was that the Athenians?</p>

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<p>Greeks in general. I’m not sure one was “bigger” than the other.</p>

<p>^^ The Spartans had to be big on homosexual relationships. It was like present-day prisons: a bunch of people of the same sex stuffed into one place.</p>

<p>I love how the discussion of ‘LOL’ turned into a discussion of ‘gay’.</p>

<p>lol lol lol lol lol olo lol lol lol lol (bc i felt like doing that)</p>

<p>Hey I was not ■■■■■■■■. Perhaps I phrased it badly.</p>

<p>Anyways, romani, I apologize if I said something wrong.</p>

<p>In any case, let’s avoid the term now to prevent any more misunderstandings…</p>

<p>hahaha DEFINETLY the spartans. Im athenian… not gay. lol.</p>

<p>^ see what i did there = p hahaha and lol. I’m so clever.</p>

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<p>No worries, I don’t think you’re a ■■■■■. For some reason, I thought I was responding to harvardlite (I was on some heavy meds last night lol). </p>

<p>I do object to your use of gay as an adjective of any sort other than to mean “happy” or “homosexual”. </p>

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<p>There is just as much evidence of homosexuality in Athens as there is from Sparta. </p>

<p>And DUH every Greek is gay. Just like everyone from a homophobic culture is straight :rolleyes:</p>

<p>A social linguist would eat this stuff up lol.</p>

<p>I am doing linguistic anthropology -.-</p>

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<p>Such an obvious dirty joke to be made here… ugh</p>

<p>I wonder what the phylum for lol is. I’ll give it a species name - Lol lol. There are other species in this family, such as lawl, lolzer, lolzwut, and lul. lololol is a subspecies of Lol lol.</p>

<p>@ThisCouldBeHeaven: sneaky, sneaky</p>

<p>haha “lol” definitely has undergone some serious adaptive radiation. Hmm, I guess it would be interesting to make some sort of phylogenetic tree that showed all the relationships lololololol</p>

<p>I’m really into idiolects.</p>

<p>Exactly what I meant. Avoiding to use it as what it literally means. It’s become a complete cliche to be honest… like LOL. lol.</p>

<p>this thread made me lol</p>

<p>you can haz fail. ima zleepin on your bed.</p>