Wikipedia lolcat LOL, an acronym for laughing out loud[1][2] or laugh out loud,[3] is a common element of Internet slang. It was used historically on Usenet but is now widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even face-to-face communication. It is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms for more emphatic expressions of laughter such as LMAO[4](laugh(ing) my ass off), and ROTFL[5][6][7][8] or ROFL[9] (roll(ing) on the floor laughing). Other unrelated expansions include the now mostly historical lots of luck or lots of love used in letter-writing.[10] The list of acronyms grows by the month[5] and they are collected along withemoticons and smileys into folk dictionaries that are circulated informally amongst users of Usenet, IRC, and other forms of (textual) computer-mediated communication.[11] These initialisms are controversial, and several authors[12][13][14][15] recommend against their use, either in general or in specific contexts such as business communications. LOL was first documented in the Oxford English Dictionary in March 2011.[16] Analysis
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