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to you, from me.

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Wed, 23 Mar 2011

Why It's OK to say LOL

I've heard people complain about the texting habits of kids and many adults, who type just "LOL" to shorten "Laughing out Loud" and such, but it apparently isn't anything today's kids should be blamed for doing.

I just read an online article from the Oxford University Press which revealed that such shortcuts were once very common in newspapers. Journalists routinely used abbreviations instead of writing out common phrases. "A.R." was apparently popular to abbreviate "all right".

Oh, and today is the 172nd anniversary of the first known printed use of OK to stand for "oll korrect" [that's how they intentionally misspelled it, I guess]. O.K. was printed in a Boston newspaper on March 23, 1839.

Proper Bostonians, indeed.

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Ramblings

Bloviating: to you, from me.

Wed, 23 Mar 2011

Bloviating:
to you, from me.