I just saw the acronym “lol” in a published movie review. The english language is officially dead. —Have some standards
This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2014.
Texting or journalism?
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omg!! wtf???? imho ur so rite! wtg.
We never should have let Gutenberg go public with that moveable type contraption. It was all downhill after that.
Oh my god, it’s almost as if language is fluid and ever evolving????????????? Or do you think scholars would be pleased with your use of the word “texting” 100 years ago? The earth is flat, women are inferior, einstein was a witch, blahblahblah
yes, yes, yes.. language officially dies once a generation.
Was this a fight club of acronyms? Or was it a subtly placed bit of satire in an otherwise articulate piece of journalism?
If it’s the latter, you’ve officially missed the point.
I prefer Judge Judy’s comment regarding the drivel written in texts “America used to have a great education system that produced intelligent people, now it’s morons”
LMAO … Would that have been better OB ?
I love it when she has to ask Officer Byrd to translate tech-speak, or ebonics for her.
He is too cool.
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HAVING STANDARDS
“I just saw the acronym ‘lol’ published in movie review.” Have some standards
The poster has made a category mistake. His fear that the English language is dead based on his seeing “lol” in a movie review mistakenly supposes that it is a linguistic or philological issue. It is not.
It is a class issue. Only the lower orders go to see movies. That is why sub-literate locutions like “lol” appear in movie reviews. It is where they belong. They belong there because movies are sub-literate entertainment for the lower orders.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
P.S. New avatar alert!