ROFL or LMAO or LOL

These abbreviations are here to stay.

ROFL or LMAO or LOL

 

 

By Elton Camp

 

 

How incomprehensible these, several years ago

But communication, it is a-changing though

 

When talking in person or even on the phone

Our intent is by phony laughter easily shown

 

But when we’re writing in an IM or an e-mail

Printed words alone don’t always tell the tale

 

ROFL usually means it’s funny as it can be

While LMAO would be so disgusting to see

 

ROFL might actually be a pleasant sight

A buttock separating wouldn’t bring delight

 

So LOL seems the far safer choice to me

It is equivalent in speech to saying “Hee, hee.”

 

WTF or OMG, please don’t write these to me

For they are just as offensive as they can be

 

These may cause English teachers to have a fit

But their fussing won’t make any of us quit