Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:06:39 -0400
From: Stirling Newberry <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: TUNA -- Trendy Usage of Nonsensical Additions


At 11:41 AM -0500 12/1/97, Paul wrote:
>>PS - LOL is "Laughing out Loud". The net has entered that exclusive
>>pantheon of language games which has so much repetative expression that it
>>spawns a hoard of abbreviations, which are none the less easy to understand
>>and remember - simply because they are so useful.
>
>	It's laziness. Can't think of something to say? Write an acronym or
>fifty.
>Another form of street slang, and the information superhighway (damn that
>Al Gore) is the block that we hang out on. Pretty soon there'll be gangs --
>or is there already? Is Paul saying that Street Slang is bad? NO. But it
>get's stale when you are older than 15 years old.
>
>wolffy
>
>
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Use = utility.

Utility is brought about by happiness.

People are lazy because it makes them unhappy to not be lazy. Or at least
they think they would be unhappy if they were not lazy.

QED

Stirling Newberry
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