The Financial Times Can Even Make LOLspeak Boring

When the bunch of stodgy old Brits over at the Financial Times attempt to describe the world of internet slang to its readers, verbal trainwrecks, like this paragraph, happen.

The group takes the name Lulz from 4chan slang derived from LOL, shorthand for laughing out loud, tweaked to refer to laughing at others’ surprise or misery.

Hey chaps, let’s just leave the cultural analysis of the internet to the more well versed, shall we? [Financial Times]


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