{"id":10053,"date":"2014-05-29T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T11:49:09","slug":"lol-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10053","title":{"rendered":"LOL @ 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/may\/28\/25-years-lol-good-bad-bits\">The Guardian<\/a> today the accronym LOL (laughing out loud) first appeared 25 years ago in the International FidoNet Association Newsletter dated 8 May 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The article mentions a few equivalents in other languages: &#8220;\u314b\u314b\u314b&#8221; (KKK) in Korean; MDR or <em>mort de rire<\/em> (died of laughter) in French; and 555 \t(\u0e2b\u0e49\u0e32 \u0e2b\u0e49\u0e32 \u0e2b\u0e49\u0e32 \t\/ haa haa haa) in Thai. Do you know or use any others?<\/p>\n<p>LOL is not related to the Welsh word <em>lol<\/em>, which means &#8220;nonsense, foolery, bosh, bunkum, gammon, moonshine, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, tomfoolery or\u00a0twaddle&#8221;; or to the English word loll (to hang down loosely; to droop, dangle), an expression that, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/view\/Entry\/109903?rskey=rvEGn8&#038;result=2&#038;isAdvanced=false#eid\">OED<\/a>, has a sound suggestive or rocking or swinging, and might be connected to the Middle Dutch <em>lollen<\/em> (to sleep) &#8211; found in Modern Dutch in <em>lollebanck<\/em> (couch, sofa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found in The Guardian today the accronym LOL (laughing out loud) first appeared 25 years ago in the International FidoNet Association Newsletter dated 8 May 1989. The article mentions a few equivalents in other languages: &#8220;\u314b\u314b\u314b&#8221; (KKK) in Korean; MDR or mort de rire (died of laughter) in French; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}