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smegsicle
if you exclaim 'lol!' it lets you type 'lolol'
mLuby
Can it differentiate laughing and crying?
jldugger
The crystalologist wept, for they had dropped their lollipop on the floor.
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britneybitch
that's funny
jquery
ha
eyelidlessness
I don’t know why but I actually lol’ed when I reached this comment. True out loud laugh attested here
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beastcoast
Video doesn’t play - is HN capable of breaking Twitter now?
sundvor
Twitter managed that on their own; is down in Australia at least.
smcleod
Yeah huge Twitter outage today, no one's talking about it I'm assuming because far less people care about Twitter anymore.
sundvor
Crazy, another hour gone by and it's still down (in Australia, at least).
willcipriano
Works here in the US, maybe try holding your phone the other way round?
yieldcrv
Tried that, just gave a Tasmanian devil cancer
AdityaSanthosh
Hey guys, it's me Elon. It's working for me. I don't know what you are talking about
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philwelch
Back in my youth, I had a friend on AIM who excessively typed “lol”. We ended up talking on the phone once and I was surprised to learn that (a) she actually did laugh out loud approximately that frequently and (b) it was more of a nervous giggle, and not so much a full-throated laugh.
tayo42
oh man, i used to ask people if they were really laughing when they said "lol"... thanks for resurfacing this memory... ugh lol
danparsonson
Conversely I used to have a friend who actually said "lol" instead of laughing - I guess that was lololing?
piyush_soni
I have friends who use say the word "LOL" as well, but as a sarcasm.
nullify88
My group of friends started doing that after they were introduced to the Pure Pwnage web series back in 2004. Classic.
danparsonson
That takes me back.... World of Warcraft is a feeling :-D
whycome
Now do one for the French equivalent MDR.
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tsukurimashou
but you really have to die for the thing to let you type it

(MDR stands for "mort de rire", or dying of laughter in english)

robertlagrant
That makes more sense than my thought of medical device regulation.
eyelidlessness
My beard just got some grey in it when I laughed in my head and didn’t reply “rol”, the entirely opt in lol-verifier that we all used to treat as sacred.
heavyset_go
Now make one that shocks you when you don't literally laugh your ass off.
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Dudelander
But does it work for ROFLMAO?
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jansan
You will need a special mat for that, sold separately.
jtxt
The last couple letters sounds like a bio hazard.
xlii
Can we expect ROTFLMAOAHAHA to include Holter device?
smsm42
OK I wouldn't lie, I didn't LOL but I chuckled pretty loudly.
surfsvammel
I love this idea. Concepts like this is useful for making a tighter connection between the real world and the online world.
ZyanWu
How would this tighter connection be useful? The whole internet became/is a creative slate because the two worlds aren't connected

Connecting them would mean less privacy (or even lack of)

anticensor
What if I said LOL for "lots of love" instead?
cafeinux
Like in "your uncle died, LOL" ? Guess you'd have to train the ML model on cries instead of laugh, simply.
user-extended
ML based on "Live, Laugh, Love". Oh, the horrors!
drtyuhbvc
ok, boomer.

lol today means "yeah, rigth"

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causi
Are we still pretending "lol" is not just a piece of grammar now?
w-m
How did it come to replace the period as the marker for the end of a sentence?
causi
It doesn't mark the end of a sentence. It marks that the sentence is not to be taken with the utmost seriousness.
w-m
If you put it like that, the marker would only make sense in an otherwise serious conversation. But when it's used as a stop marker for every other message in a texting app, that's already a very casual and light-hearted environment, why do some people feel the need to reinforce it again and again? Maybe I'm overthinking it lol
Phlogistique
Because human communication involves redundancy of information.
unshavedyak
It's also interesting, i frequently use `lol.` as a sort of combination emotion, where i'm signalling laughing but also abruptly stopping. Meaningfully different than a `heh`. Likewise `heh` and `heh.` have a very distinct feel.

Language is weird, it just comes naturally and organically and i go with the flow. Though i find this style of writing mostly done in texting. Long/medium form doesn't benefit as greatly from it.

bigDinosaur
I've indeed seen it used to mean basically 'this is serious but don't take it too seriously' if that makes sense, in the way that someone might say: 'university education is useless for the current job market lol'. I guess there are levels to this thing.
joegahona
It'll be really disturbing when execs and legal departments start using it to soften bad news.

> Due to macroeconomic headwinds, we’ve made the very difficult decision to reduce our workforce by about 40 percent lol

oytis
> How did it come to replace the period as the marker for the end of a sentence lol

FTFY

shultays
I am still trying to get over someone actually loudly saying "lol" while laughing
hdjjhhvvhga
I don't believe it's happened yet; Merriam-Webster still has it as an abbreviation only spelled as LOL whereas in practice it's already used as a verb.
Fnoord
It has always been, in Dutch (it means 'fun'). And the Dutch have been very early and influential on IRC (where the acronym stems from).
INTPenis
Let's be honest, in most contexts lol is just a smile and a good feeling.

When I was at school around 2003 I actually heard someone yell out across the cafeteria "you're so f*king lol!", in swedish. It was used as a verb.

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Legogris
Classic. Best (and commonly?) delivered in a thick Skane accent.
chengiz
That's not a verb, that's an adjective.
lnxg33k1
...some men just want to watch the world burn
nashashmi
There was a time when we used to reserve these kinds of jokes for April fool's day.

I hate April fool's day but if it was these kinds of jokes, I'd be very amused.

sergiopreira
Haha! Brilliant. Next is to configure based on "highness"....
amelius
> Haha! Brilliant.

Real "Haha" or faked?

hardware2win
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lol doesnt mean just laughed...

It also means being shocked or surprised "lol?"

For some reason people who try to define lol often miss that 2nd, popular meaning

almostarockstar
Maybe I'm an exception, but I have never ever seen lol used with that 2nd meaning.
hardware2win
lol?
d1sxeyes
For me, when I see 'lol' used like this I read it as quite aggressive and offensive. I don't see it really an expression of surprise or shock, but with its original meaning used in a sarcastic way: 'I am laughing with incredulity at the fact that you actually think that'.