Thread: Internet Speech
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Old Sep 23, 2003, 10:43 am   #16 (permalink) (top)
RebelWithanAK
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Methinks online chat abbreviations are just shorthand technical prose that don't affect the human language because they're relegated to the medium they're born on. I don't think I've ever heard, or will ever hear, someone actually say "lol" in real life. And if they do, I'll punch 'em.


. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
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