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The stalwart bastion of language, the Oxford English Dictionary, will now include and LOL as real words worthy of etymological recording.
Other words added include the formidable OMG. As they say, “words ‘like these are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications,” and have entered the mainstream because of how easy they are to use.
Online, “initialisms” as they call them, are faster to type （as in texts and tweets） and, crucially, “help to say more in media where there is a limit to a number of characters one may use in a single message.”
But the rise of these allcaps acronyms has impacted the nonelectronic world as well. Found“in print, and even in spoken use” the OED notes “there often seems to be a bit more than simple abbreviation going on.”
When youre LOLing in real life, apparently your eshorthand helps you connote that you are using an “informal, gossipy mode of expression”or even going so far as to “parody the level of unreflective enthusiasm or overstatement that can sometimes appear in online discourse, while at the same time marking oneself as an ‘insider au fait with the forms of expression associated with the latest technology.”Only the OED could bring such levels of meaning to the simple OMG.
Though they found that such words are usually associated with“a younger generation,” the dictionarys meticulous research unturned a few startling early uses. OMG first appears in a 1917 personal letter and LOL dates to 1960, though it used to mean “little old lady” and not “laugh out loud.”
None of this explains why “wassup” made the cut this time round.
The full definitions for and LOL below:
to heart
The new sense added to heart in this update may be the first English usage to develop via the medium of Tshirts and bumperstickers. It originated as a humorous reference to logos featuring a picture of a heart as a symbol for the verb love, like that of the famous ‘I NY tourism campaign. Our earliest quote for this use, from 1984, uses the verb in ‘I heart my dogs head, a jokey play on bumper stickers featuring a heart and a picture of the face of a particular breed of dog （expressing a persons enthusiasm for, say, shihtzus） which itself became a popular bumper sticker. From these beginnings, heart v. has gone on to live an existence in more traditional genres of literature as a colloquial synonym for ‘to love.
LOL
Originally and chiefly in the language of electronic communications: ‘ha ha!’; used to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement, or to express amusement.
资料来源 China Daily
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Other words added include the formidable OMG. As they say, “words ‘like these are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications,” and have entered the mainstream because of how easy they are to use.
Online, “initialisms” as they call them, are faster to type （as in texts and tweets） and, crucially, “help to say more in media where there is a limit to a number of characters one may use in a single message.”
But the rise of these allcaps acronyms has impacted the nonelectronic world as well. Found“in print, and even in spoken use” the OED notes “there often seems to be a bit more than simple abbreviation going on.”
When youre LOLing in real life, apparently your eshorthand helps you connote that you are using an “informal, gossipy mode of expression”or even going so far as to “parody the level of unreflective enthusiasm or overstatement that can sometimes appear in online discourse, while at the same time marking oneself as an ‘insider au fait with the forms of expression associated with the latest technology.”Only the OED could bring such levels of meaning to the simple OMG.
Though they found that such words are usually associated with“a younger generation,” the dictionarys meticulous research unturned a few startling early uses. OMG first appears in a 1917 personal letter and LOL dates to 1960, though it used to mean “little old lady” and not “laugh out loud.”
None of this explains why “wassup” made the cut this time round.
The full definitions for and LOL below:
to heart
The new sense added to heart in this update may be the first English usage to develop via the medium of Tshirts and bumperstickers. It originated as a humorous reference to logos featuring a picture of a heart as a symbol for the verb love, like that of the famous ‘I NY tourism campaign. Our earliest quote for this use, from 1984, uses the verb in ‘I heart my dogs head, a jokey play on bumper stickers featuring a heart and a picture of the face of a particular breed of dog （expressing a persons enthusiasm for, say, shihtzus） which itself became a popular bumper sticker. From these beginnings, heart v. has gone on to live an existence in more traditional genres of literature as a colloquial synonym for ‘to love.
LOL
Originally and chiefly in the language of electronic communications: ‘ha ha!’; used to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement, or to express amusement.
资料来源 China Daily
责任编辑 任占华
摩羯座 (Capricornus) 黄道带十二星座之一，面积41395平方度，占全天面积的1003%，在全天88个星座中，面积排行第四十位。摩羯座中亮于55等的恒星有31颗，最亮星为垒壁阵四（摩羯座δ），视星等为281。每年8月8日子夜摩羯座中心经过上中天。