Churbles, Grammatical Bomb: O.K. & lol.

As a follow up to my last post about TXTSPK, I'm going to talk about the two things I left out: The socially accepted O.K. & the corrupted lol.

Let's start with O.K., not the grammatically correct 'Kay, but the sound OhKay we're looking for.  Analysis time: Origin: Okay. What's used: O.K.. So, we have O and, even without anything in between, a period before the K as well as one after such. Time to fix the problem. Remove the period that stands for nothing: OK.. Uncapitalize the K that is so for no reason: Ok.. Now, I'm not an expert in this, that period might be grammatically corroct, but I'd prefer the one I know is, the apostraphe: Ok'.

Voila! It's fixed. . . except now it would be pronounced like "oak", and that's not what we want. So, how do we get this O.K. sound? Got it yet? I said it earlier, if you caught it. The answer is: Okay! The one word we've been avoiding is the one we need! Think: Same sound, same amount of character's, but more grammatically correct. There's no reason not to, TXTSPKRS.

Now for the second half. The corrupted lol. What's so corrupted about it? You'll find out shortly. Analysis time: Origin: Laugh out loud. What's use: lol. Let's start with what irks me the most about lol, that fact that nobody ever laughs out loud when the type it. Maybe L.Q.T.M.? Laugh quietly to myself. Ether which way, next is the spelling: lol. Let's see here: Not capitalized (every time) like every abbreviation should be (LOL), nothing showing the missing letters (L.O.L.).

And now let's touch on one of my least favorite things my generation's come up with: Saying L.O.L. (and things like O.M.G.) out loud, as if it were a real word. . . wait, they probably do. (I'm exaggerating, they don't all)

And as a closer, I leave you with something I forgot in the last one, TXTSPK. Spelling words with the last letter repeated to, in their mind, just put emphasis, in reality's mind, emphasize how whiny their tone is, I have a Facebook friend who does this (who I only keep for reasons of my own, nosy), and, like most, she exaggerates the wrong letter, too many times.

O.K., a terrible, un-useful abbreviation that goes by without so much as a glance, and lol, a lying, ungrammatical abbreviation that tries to pass itself off as a word. I wonder how these things got to the state they're in.

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