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[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 128 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 61 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Could make it worse with a hehe.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago

Due to your actions placing this company in a bad light, your employment is hereby terminated with immediate effect. Tee hee xoxo

[–] pohart@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Haha at the end definitely bothers me lol

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[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 76 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a good tone indicator

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[–] sparkles@piefed.zip 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I cannot unless I substitute in :)

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Use :3 just to make it awkward.

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[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I ain't using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII

[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago
[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

Some of you youngins have never typed a >.< and it shows

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[–] Apocalypteroid@anarchist.nexus 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm a Xennial, so I put lol at the end of my sentences, but hate it. lol

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

Least we are not forgotten for once kek

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well crap my username announces my age.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 25 points 1 week ago

Well crap my username announces my age, lol.

There, fixed it for you, lol

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 week ago

I literally can't stop myself lol

It's a problem lmao

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago

How will people know my tone? It's stupid, but effective.

Lol.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm sorry but "lol" is a totem of the fact that our generation was the first that grew up with the internet. Instant messengers were a cornerstone of our youth, and it's been embedded into our language. There is no changing this.

It would be like us asking you to stop using "it's giving" or similar.

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What does "it's giving" mean? I don't think I've heard anyone say that.

[–] zammy95@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"it's similar too" or "it reminds me" I think? That's how I'd describe it from my understanding

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[–] Nariom@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

lol. lmao, even.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago

I alternate between that and "haha". You can pry my lol off my cold dead lolerskate feet as I fly away in my roflcopter

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I hear you.

Hear me out, though, don't censor the way other people speak as long as that speech is inoffensive.

If it makes people happy to add lol, or any other thing into their speaking pattern, then that's perfectly fine.

If you have a judgment about it, keep it to yourself.

There are more important things to worry about.

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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

how do you ask someone to change their whole identity like that

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm just a bit old to be a millennial (The Oregon Trail generation, thank you very much) and I will often add a ", lol" to the end of a sentence just to hopefully help the lighthearted tone come through.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] deacon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I could never bring myself to do that, actually.

So I just ended up replacing it with an equally annoying onomatopoeic expression to end almost every sentence, haha

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I unapologetically balance my lols and hahas. Loha if you will lol

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[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's the only way I can avoid both Poe's law and involuntary institutionalization, lol

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Watch Kirby dance haha lol

<(^.^<)
<(^_^)>
(>^.^)>
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[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was talking to someone about a serious and personal topic, and caught myself saying "lol" quickly, and apologised in advance explaining that it's a habit.
"Man, that sucks lol". They understood it already as a force of habit, yet I didn't realise how difficult it is to shake lol!
Edit: damn it..

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 13 points 1 week ago

Cry about it, lol.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy is full of boomers Who sometimes feel they never have meet a person in their 20's, as a gen Z, I have only one thing to say, lol

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[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never heard anyone actually complain about this, lol.

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[–] jacecomix@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I literally can't help it lol
It's just what I do haha

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[–] Una@europe.pub 10 points 1 week ago
[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 10 points 1 week ago
[–] Laser@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If you are particularly deranged, you can also use "^^"

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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I am late 90s Gen Z and still do it. I guess I am lame and cringe now huh?

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