Has anyone ever texted or e-mailed the word “ROFL” to you?
ROFL = Rolling on the floor laughing
Yeah. About that.
First, if you’re going to include “on” in the acronym, “the” belongs too. That makes it ROTFL.
Second, let’s be honest: You’re not rolling on the floor laughing. You’re probably not even laughing out loud. More than likely, you chuckled a little bit.
To my knowledge, no one in the history of mankind has rolled on the floor laughing from a text or e-mail. In person, possibly. Quite likely, in fact, if tickles are involved. But from reading something? I don’t think so.
I’m careful about my LOLs. If I type that acronym, I mean that I audibly laughed. It doesn’t mean that I laughed so hard that I scared the neighbors (that’s an LSHISTN). But I made a sound.
The next time you type ROFL, think twice before you hit send. The world will be a better place if you don’t.
ROMBL.
That stands for rolling on my bed laughing. Which I did. Not a full 360 degree rotation, but enough to permit the use of the acronym.
You did this ROMBL after reading something?
yes, after reading your post. It was 2 am, which might have contributed to the over reaction.
I hate woot. I’m not sure what this sounds like in real life but I’m pretty sure if I heard it I’d still hate it. I believe that 95% of ppl that type this don’t ever say this outloud.
What is “woot”? Is that a noise or a word? I’ve never seen anyone type this before. I wonder if that makes me uncultured.
Yeah, I have no idea what woot is. Does it stand for something? I’ve seen it typed and I’m aware of the site woot.com, but I’ve never heard someone say it out loud.
I keep checking back because I’m pretty darn interested in the answer, but no one seems to know what a “woot” is!
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woot
Urban Dictionary rocks my world.
W00t!
So according to the link below, “woot” is short for “Wow, loot!”
Okay….
This is not on topic, but try looking up sh*t on that site. Not with *, but with the i. They have a sh*t list and it made me LOL and saying “WTF?” the first time I read it.
Don’t look up poop. Because I wish I did.
Oops. I meant, did NOT.
This is your best pet peeve yet. I hope this post will get read by many and that we will see a real change in the world.
I, too, take LOL seriously. I only say LOL if I did, in fact, LOL. But society has so weakened the term LOL that I often feel the need to tell people that I “literally LOL” which is should be unnecessary, but I have to assume that people will think I’m lying when I say LOL just like everyone else is. I would really like to see this change because I literally hate using the term literally more than is literally necessary.
And you are exactly right, ROFL is not even a thing unless you are <6 years old and you are being tickled.
Thanks Bryce. And I’m glad that you take LOL seriously. It’s sad that a “literal LOL” is necessary, but I’ve definitely done that. At least that way the person knows you’re truly laughing.
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