Initialisms?Saelune said:But they are NOT words...they are...well, i dont remember the actual word, but they are multiple words.
Initialisms?Saelune said:But they are NOT words...they are...well, i dont remember the actual word, but they are multiple words.
Amen, mein Landsmann.Exterminas said:It keeps amazing me how little people understand about the way languages comes to be.
Here in Germany this is especially funny: German is an amalgation of ancient german languages, Latin, a dash of french and some english from around the world wars.
Now with the internet more and more english starts to leak into our language and people complain that it "taints" the german language. What's there to taint?
Your given example is even better, because these words aren't even from other languages, they are just shorter forms of well known phrases that become own words.
Like CIA. FBI. "The president". "The congress"
I'm pretty sure I can say "lol" whilst smiling, can't anyone else?bobby1361 said:LOL (lol) and OMG (omg) have both been put into the Oxford English Dictionary.
I think this is sad news and they should have been kept to the internet, you can't even say lol when smiling or laughing, so it's it's effectively...pointless, unless you use it like a slow clap, as mentioned in the article.
What are your opinions on this?
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12893416
Well, fair enough but to me it seems to awkward to be viable. And just think, someone makes you laugh in person, then you laugh, you wouldn't just smile and say lol, or, most people wouldn't.JoJoDeathunter said:I'm pretty sure I can say "lol" whilst smiling, can't anyone else?bobby1361 said:LOL (lol) and OMG (omg) have both been put into the Oxford English Dictionary.
I think this is sad news and they should have been kept to the internet, you can't even say lol when smiling or laughing, so it's it's effectively...pointless, unless you use it like a slow clap, as mentioned in the article.
What are your opinions on this?
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12893416
Congratulations, you've just discovered that language evolves over time.bobby1361 said:What are your opinions on this?