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Is CL the new LOL?

August 1st, 2008 at 12:00 pm · 14 Comments

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Is CL the new LOL?

Short answer: no.

Long answer, after the jump.

Everybody knows that popular acronym ‘lol’ means languished otters lie, but recently many people have given the acronym a bad name, attributing it to the phrase ‘laugh out loud’. However that is not lol’s bigest problem. The main issue with ‘lol’ is that people are very rarely actually laughing out loud when they use it.

This problem has become very widespread and has actually formed the basis of all IM conversations:

Person 1: hey

Person 2: Hey

Person 1: hows u?

Person 2: gd u?

Person 1: yh gd thnx

[5 minutes pass]

Person 1: lol

Person 2: lol

Person 1: gd day?

Person 2: yh..lol

Person 1: lol

And so on and so forth.

As you can see, ‘lol’ has become a meaningless phrase merely used to fill awkward space. We here at SarcasticGamer.com want to restore ‘lol’ to its proper meaning so that it is only used when people actually laugh out loud.

I contacted the Sarcastic Gamer Research and Development Department and asked them to get right on it. After many months and much toiling over furnaces Sarcastic Gamer LabsTM can now reveal a new acronym that’s is sweeping the globe: cl.

It’s a ‘c’ followed by an ‘l’. Simple in theory but much harder to implement. Cl means ‘Conceptual Laughter’ – laughter that is merely a concept and not actually occurring. So the next time you feel like using ‘lol’ when not actually laughing, you should think again and use ‘cl’. And, on the off chance that you’re actually laughing, use that old favourite, ‘lol’.

Thank you for your time.




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  • Dableo

    A long time ago “lol” actually meant “loser-on-line” to be used whenever a noon and/or loser came on. However, noobs decided it meant “laugh-out-loud” and began using it after every line. I can’t remember where I picked that little bit of info up. cl

  • Dableo

    CL I meant ‘noob’ on the first word second line. I’m trying to use your new acronym but it’s hard!

  • SWSilentkiller

    I think I will use Cl from now on, sounds better then lol anyway.

  • Havok Saunders

    “‘lol’ means languished otters lie”

    I lol’d at that part.

  • http://www.360voice.com/tag/andyg8180 andyg

    roflmcao

  • http://www.presionastart.com JameZDeadman

    cl is used for the chileans internet domains, im from chile so i know…..cl

  • Deejay

    CL!!!!!

  • Addict

    fl….faked laughing………cl…………….lol

  • iBrick

    sl – silent laughter. Makes much more sense to me. sl

  • http://Vote4Drizzt.Blogspot.com Vote4Drizzt

    CQTM-Chuckling Quietly To Myself

  • njitram2000

    If you think lol is bad, what about rofl. I doubt anyone is actually rolling on the floor with laughter when they type that because it would be physically impossible. On the other hand, “lol” in dutch means “having fun” and that’s what I think of when I read and type it.

  • http://bahamutdragons.livejournal.com Bahamut Dragons

    I never type lol unless I’m actually laughing out loud. As one might imagine, I never rofl either. Let’s raise the IQ of the Internet people!

  • justuwaitandsee

    i completely agree with ‘lol’ being over used, thats why i never use it and instead just say that i actually laughed out loud. but nor do i ever use ‘rofl’ (ive only just found out you say it as an actual word, as to rhyme with ‘waffle’. or lmao. of roflmao. just a ‘hahaha’ works fine for me.

    do you say lmao as a word? – ellmayo or something? or just as individual letters – ell em ay oh?

    ok, so yeah i find ‘lol’ a bit pointless but it is something you can actually read as w rod if you wish, but ‘cl’ just looks like a couple of accidentally typed letters that have no meaning, conceptual or otherwise, at all.

    sorry about that.

  • justuwaitandsee

    some corrections – ‘of roflmao’ should be ‘OR roflmao’

    and

    ‘w rod’ should have been ‘word’