LOLed - laugh out louded

LedOL - laughed out loud



thoughts?

3/28/2008 11:57:04 AM

I think you wasted your thread

3/28/2008 11:57:25 AM

i think LOLed looks a lot more intuitively correct

3/28/2008 11:57:27 AM

10/10

3/28/2008 11:57:31 AM

ibStillFuchsia

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 11:58 AM. Reason : -]

3/28/2008 11:57:55 AM

LOL
LOLed
LOLing

3/28/2008 12:13:59 PM

message_topic.aspx?topic=518457

3/28/2008 12:42:25 PM

Technically, the joining of the intialism LOL and the suffix ed, for example, would necessitate a hyphen. (e.g. LOL-ed). I posit that at least the suffix rule applies and probably the compound-element rule.

But since posts on TWW are not intended to be academic offerings--or even formal--one can simply choose LOLed or LedOL. Widespread use and tradition will dictate usage more than any definitive syntactic rules.

3/28/2008 1:07:56 PM

lawld

3/28/2008 1:08:52 PM

lol'd

3/28/2008 1:12:49 PM

^ Apostrophes do show omission or possession. But since the ed suffix is not a stand-alone word, such as what would be seen in a contraction, I wouldn't use the apostrophe in that way.

3/28/2008 1:21:52 PM

lolored


lawlered

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 1:22 PM. Reason : l]

3/28/2008 1:22:32 PM

laughed out louded

3/28/2008 1:23:51 PM

Initialisms and acronyms have a life of their own--separate from the words they represent. And a warning: These abbreviations create ambiguity as identical letter groups multiply.

Witness the entries from just the first page of LOL from Acronymfinder.com:

Quote :

"LOL Laugh(ing) Out Loud LOL Labor of Love LOL Land of Lincoln LOL Land O' Lakes LOL Love of Life LOL List of Lists LOL Locks of Love (Lake Worth, Florida charity) LOL Lord of Lords (Jesus) LOL Legend of Legaia (video game) LoL Lands of Lore (game) LOL Loyal Orange Lodge LOL Lightolier (Genlyte Group company) LOL Lords of Legend (gaming) LOL League of Losers (wild 17 chess team) LOL Lady of the Lake"

http://acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=LOL&Find=find&string=exact

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 1:46 PM. Reason : .]

3/28/2008 1:43:54 PM

lawled

3/28/2008 2:06:26 PM

lawld
lol'd
lolored
lawlered
loled
lawled

3/28/2008 2:41:27 PM

Laugh On-Line

3/28/2008 3:51:25 PM

NIFOC

3/28/2008 3:52:47 PM

present tense of FAIL

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=520468

3/28/2008 3:52:49 PM

i lol'd

3/28/2008 3:56:00 PM

geLOLt (auf Deutsch)

3/28/2008 3:59:58 PM

lol'ded

3/28/2008 4:21:33 PM

3/28/2008 4:31:13 PM

LedOL looks like come strange new electrical part

3/28/2008 6:17:17 PM

nice

3/28/2008 6:17:45 PM

^^^that's hilarious

3/28/2008 6:49:52 PM