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Originally Posted by Karmillo
I use rofl when Im really laughing out loud.
Lol...I use it sometimes when im slightly amuse or when someone tells a bad joke or says something not really funny but they seem to find it funny and I think "maybe I sould laugh..." and just say lol to avoid an awkward situation  |
Exactly the same here.
The funny thing is that lol is one of those terms that somehow creep into normal verbal language as well. I've said 'lol' literally quite a few times among friends, when something is mildly amusing but not extremely. Friends tend to do the same.
Recently we had a philosophical discussion about it.
Why do we (subconsciously) introduce 'lol' to verbal language, but refrain from doing so for 'wtf'? We think it's because 'what the ****' is actually faster to pronounce than 'w-t-f', but 'lol' is faster than 'this is funny' or something similar.
