LOL or ROTFL, it's just your own choice on the internet.

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First I didn't quite catch what people said using these abbreviations like LOL, ROTFL, BBL, etc..The Wikipedia came to my rescue though. The analysis there was amazingly terrific so that I got to learn several other expressions. Listed below:

LOL (also written with some or all letters lowercase, most commonly as lol or LoL) is a common element of Internet slang used historically on Usenet but now widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even face-to-face communication. It is an abbreviation for "laughing out loud"^[1]^[2] or "laugh out loud".^[3] LOL is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms such as ROTFL ("roll(ing) on the floor laughing"),^[4]^[5] a more emphatic expressions of laughter, and BWL ("bursting with laughter"), above which there is "no greater compliment" according to technology columnist Larry Magid.^[6] Other unrelated expansions include the less common "lots of luck" or "lots of love".^[7]

Besides, the Chinese cyber searching engines were also not bad. I got the following English abbreviations frequently used on internet and their equivalents in Chinese:

BTW：By the way，顺便说一句。
BRB：Be right back，马上回来。
TTYL：Talk to you later，回头再谈。
BBL：Be back later，过会儿就回。
kick your ass：打你屁屁。
PPL：people，人们。
PLZ：please，请，也有缩写成PLS。
RUOK：Are you OK?
IOWAN2BWU：I only want to be with you。
M$ULKeCraZ：Miss you like crazy。
CUL8R：see you later。
IMHO：In my humble opinion

IMHO, it's nice to learn those above.

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sandyquill on

Re: LOL or ROTFL, it's just your own choice on the internet.

Another one that folks use here often is FWIW. For what it's worth.

Yes, the slang of the 'net can be a bit weird. I was going to incorporate more into a novel, but realized I'd have to make a glossary, and the readers of the average light romance just don't want to be bothered. <smile>

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quickwar on

Re: LOL or ROTFL, it's just your own choice on the internet.

it's indeed a long list of words. I guess you folks use them for your convenience but later it requiers more digesting of readers esp. when new abbreviations are created.

Anyway, FWIW is truely less time consuming. But, will it be a fact that the next next generations of computer users only recognize FWIW instead of For what it's worth?

That will most probably be ture some day! LOL