Time-saving online abbreviations like LOL, OMG, and IMHO are now part of the official English language. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced the addition of several acronyms to its dictionary ...

Few facets of internet culture have withstood the test of time quite like LOL. The web’s constantly shifting landscape makes it hard for even news to maintain relevance beyond a few days. Yet, somehow ...

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The Internet is, on top of everything else, a word generator of unparalleled proportions. As a platform for expression, the thing has provided us with an explosion of new terms—and, with them, new ...

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the first known usage of LOL for “laughing out loud” (the “lots of love” interpretation, incidentally, is quite a bit older). The linguist Ben Zimmer notes ...

How will you know whether a site is funny in the future? It may be that it will carry an ".LOL" on the end of the address instead of ".com," so you know for sure that it is supposed to cause laughter.

Dishonesty runs rampant on the internet. One person will make up a celebrity encounter that never happened, another will share a story about their precocious child’s reaction to breaking news, and, ...

OMG, the OED is adding TMI, IMHO. Translation for us over-the-hill (OTH?) folks: "Oh my God," the Oxford English Dictionary is adding "too much information," "in my humble opinion" — popular Internet ...