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“I used to know who I was. I stood for something specific and measurable,” LOL paused while he chewed the end of a comma.
Awkward silence, so tP&tP decided to mention the elephant in the room, "LMAO has skyrocketed in popularity. How do you – "
“I despise LMAO with every letter and dot of my abbreviation. I've been hemorrhaging meaning ever since he showed up. I hate to be dramatic but this all feels so Kafkaesque — another overused word that slid quickly into misuse. So if I misused it, go figure! Seriously, people are now inserting me at the end of their messages to mean ‘whatever’ or ‘that’s that’ or ‘It’s all good.’
But it gets worse.
Nowadays, lots of texters have absolutely no clue what I mean, but they still insert me at the end of messages. Really? I’m more than a punctuation mark!”
We don’t feel your pain, LOL, but the Wordest Bird genuinely hopes you find peace and yourself, lol.
The Wordest Bird is a regular column published by The Plum and the Prune, under the sign of the word birds playing word games (insert). Posts from the Rookery are delivered irregularly.
