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It has come into increasingly commonplace speak and messaging fall back protocol in this day and age, joining the likes of LOL , et al.
Where even if it wasn't funny, or even remotely humorous, LOL has been used ad nauseam, perhaps even as a wry chuckle/even a way of proffering, post facto, an ever so slightly embarrassed positioning of what was said or transmitted before. worse still , it is used as a response to give delsuions to teh poor hapless comedian wannabe.
It's like someone saying something that one may not have thought to much about, and then attributing a LOL to it as if to say - " ok, I said it, but it's kinda a joke and if you take it seriously, I am possibly saying it's all in jest".....it sorta gives the fake laughing guy a way out , a way to diffuse what may not be so genuine after all.... So LOL has oft been misused, instead of signifying the wild gaffaws it describes , and which I am indubitably sure, originally intended to sound out..after all, for crying out loud, it's LAUGH OUT LOUD! LOL. Ok - but that's totally another story. I truly digress.
Now what really is AWESOME all about? One could easily have described something as good, great, fantastic..or my fav S'porean colloquialism: Wahhhhh! But isn't AWESOME something that lends itself to a really big deal/ something if truly and thoughtfully proffered as a response would envisage trappings of an incredibly favourable, congratulatory sentiment?
Alas, it's just as bastardized today, with that adjective used without much thought. One is just so used to praise for the sake of praising , speak just to hear one's own voice and not really listen, cast feel good expletives in social speak as it just smooths out supposedly everything but signifying nothing??
It surely rolls off the glib tongue used to butter everything as long as all is good and it oils the social needs of validation/endorsement/seeming support and gets things going on an imagined even keel. But surely this has relegated itself to meaningless compliments or knee jerk response to everything and anything!
Everything is awesome. So what if there are some things that aren't really at all, by a larrrrrgge margin? Oh - easy, for those bits, we bring in the other abused response and just say; LOL, and buy ourselves some cover from really communicating what we feel. But then again - there's really not enough time for that and too much effort is needed to craft a proper response.
Let's all take some precious time to listen and respond accordingly, if truly we wish to communicate better.
it has been said some listen to understand, others listen to retort...or worse still, can't wait to just shoot back a meaningless "Awesome' or "LOL" just to show that u have gainfully replied/responded/shot back your salvo in the social discourse of life. I am guilty of LOLing away when there is nothing much to say and my glib fast fingers just hazard that meaningless guffaw.
Next - what we really mean by the emoticon" :)" . Awesome right? LOL ! :) ok..or maybe not......
