We're Settling This Very Important Issue Once And For All
by Adam Jacobi on Aug 2, 2010 3:23 PM CDT
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I may be French Canadian
… but my outloud LOL rhymes with “mull”
I'm funny and/or inappropriate on twitter @metricjulie
I also have a blog. I try hard to be funny and it's uncomfortable sometimes. www.metricjulie.com
This.
Me too. It’s just closer to Option 1 (“mall”) than Option Two.
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 2, 2010 3:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Plus I'm just a huge Martin Mull fan.
And, he makes me LOL. So it all works out pretty well. Also.
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 2, 2010 3:41 PM CDT up reply actions
NO IT IS NOT YOU DIRTY IRISHMAN
‘mull’ and ‘mole’ are virtually identical
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
BEN VOYONS DONC.
That’s French for WTF?
I'm funny and/or inappropriate on twitter @metricjulie
I also have a blog. I try hard to be funny and it's uncomfortable sometimes. www.metricjulie.com
sorry, I'm siding with HS on this one
not just because we got kicked out of Kinnick together.
But really, does it need to be pronounced out loud at all?
When spoken aloud
it should sound as such: Ell oh ell
To make it sounds as if it was one singular word makes no sense
by HeroPatriotStanzi on Aug 2, 2010 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Also, yeah.
That.
I'm funny and/or inappropriate on twitter @metricjulie
I also have a blog. I try hard to be funny and it's uncomfortable sometimes. www.metricjulie.com
If people say "ell oh ell"
They should get punched. People only say “LAWL” or “LOWL” aloud when making up words like TEXaco’s below example of LOLphins or LOLverines.
by The Mexican't on Aug 2, 2010 3:38 PM CDT up reply actions
This
Yes, if you’re simply saying “LOL” or “LAWL” or whatever, you should be eaten by locusts. It only comes into play when LOLing up the English language.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to the practice of LOL…and that should be enough to convince you that I’m right, and that the “mole” is correct, because that looks retarded.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Well yeah
If you actually verbalize this phrase and say it out loud in a conversation, you’re a ridiculous human being. Because if you’re in a situation where that would be used in a text or message but it’s in a live conversation, then you would, well, just laugh. If, however, I’m reading “LOL,” then in my head I’m pronouncing it ell oh ell. If used in front of a word, like LOLverines, then it’s different.
Since we're all just making up arbitrary rules here...
…as if we’re above the fray, then I posit, what if you’re using it ironically (being all mortuus-post-modern and all, sort of like paying tribute to “retro” things from the 90s)?
Like when you say something and you’re trying to be funny, but you fail miserably, and then the person you’re talking to says, “That’s funny.” It clearly isn’t funny or the person would have just laughed, but they like you enough to humor you by acting like it’s funny, but they’re just too tired to put the effort into actually laughing.
Also, I would (if I did) pronounce it like the idiot mechanic from Wings- – Lowell.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2010 3:25 PM CDT up reply actions
No. Never say "ell oh ell"
Not ever. Other things you shouldn’t say aloud: “oh em gee” “be ‘r’ be”
In fact, it’s a pretty simple rule. If a phrase was shortened to a small combination of letters to make typing it simpler, then it’s best not to use the letters alone when verbalizing the phrase. Text/internet speak aren’t intended for verbalization.
by The Mexican't on Aug 3, 2010 4:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Ben ROFLesberger Agrees
which means you’re agreeing with a sleazebag.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Aug 2, 2010 3:35 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Only because he didn't want to be called AdLOLf Hitler
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
LOL Pot
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
I think you just hit a LOL in One.
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by BurritoBrosShits on Aug 2, 2010 4:10 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Actually Hitler pronounces it LAWL
Because it sounds better in angry German.
You wouldn’t know that, because your signature is French. Why don’t you go cede Normandy to some Vikings, chicken?
Friend of the Pants since 2009.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2010 7:55 PM CDT up reply actions
I concur.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Context dependent
rhymes with “mole” when used in LOLverines and LOLphers.
rhymes with “mall” when used in LOLphins.
I still say LOLcats
like this: “lull-cats”
I'm funny and/or inappropriate on twitter @metricjulie
I also have a blog. I try hard to be funny and it's uncomfortable sometimes. www.metricjulie.com
(sings) Oh Canada....
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 2, 2010 3:42 PM CDT up reply actions
32 and more of you are uneducated barbarians.
I LOLE at you and your moms.
Friend of the Pants since 2009.
Rhymes with mole
I generally just say “ell oh ell” when verbalizing it, but in those extremely rare occasions I pronounce it as a word, it’s definitely a lol as in mole.
Sorry, Jacobi. You can’t win them all.
GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
CAN’T DECIDE! CAN’T DECIDE! BRAIN ANEURYSM!!!
Most of the time, I say “LOL as in ‘mole’” but lately I’ve been using “LOL as in ‘LAWL’ or sticking with the example above, ‘mall’”.
Holy shit, Thomas Haden Church...
…I need to start scrolling through others’ posts before I make any replies. I agree “Lowell.”
I love the MST3K thing going on here. WTF!?
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2010 3:38 PM CDT up reply actions
No image deserves a DERP more than this.
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by BurritoBrosShits on Aug 2, 2010 4:05 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Okay, something might be up
Because the score just went from 85-82 LOLE to 100-91 LAWL. The odds of a 50-50 event going one way 18 out of 24 times are, shall we say, remote.
So people, please remember that this is a very silly poll, and cheating ruins the fun for everybody. That is all.
Ceci n'est pas un blogue.
This isn't a serious poll?
Damn.
Going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going.... Alright, I'll stop for now.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 2, 2010 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Plus if you're going to cheat
At least have the decency to vote for the correct pronunciation.
No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 2, 2010 8:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I'll stop now.
Google image search for “nole” turns up disturbing images of tennis star Novak Djokovic. Who knew?
I haz a headache.
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by BurritoBrosShits on Aug 2, 2010 4:05 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
LAWL uber alles.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
TroLOLo?
Which is why, if pressed, I choose LAWL. If not, the Commies win.
A fella steps out for a two pound burrito and all hell breaks loose.
What? Seriously?
This is even contentious? I figured it would be like 4:1 for mall/LAWL. Who are you people that say “loal,” and what are you doing to America?
by Third Generation Hawk on Aug 2, 2010 5:31 PM CDT reply actions
Don't ask Tebow!!!
…’cause he missed this question (among many others) on the Wonderlic.
What a dunce.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
Good ole Florida education.
Or should I say good LOL…
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 2, 2010 7:09 PM CDT up reply actions
It's neither: correct pronunciation is "LOWL"
Rhymes with “Owl.”
“L-Owl”, the correct contraction of the words “laugh out loud”. Since “Loud” has an “Ow” sound, that’s how it’s supposed to be said: LOWL.
Say it with me: “LOWL”.
Therefore, your entire original premise is negated.
"If you want to become a man--come to Iowa" All American IOWA LB PAT ANGERER, whose best friend is a dog.
I thought it was a soft "o"
Difference between “doll” and “dole”, not “mall” and “mole”.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
For the record, I always thought it was like Jacobi assumed, though the hard “o” would solve a ton of pronunciation questions: Is it loll, lawl, lowl, lull? Soft “o” opens up an entirely new bag of worms…
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Aug 2, 2010 7:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Worms come in cans...
…everybody knows that. /pedant’d
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2010 3:55 PM CDT up reply actions
How about this?
“Lol” can be pronounced any way that the pronouncer wishes, because that leads to funnier and more exciting puns (and, no, puns cannot be exciting). End of story.
/annoyingly neutral stance-taking over
Me gustan los estados unidos.
Closer than I thought it'd be at this point
Just snorted Diet Coke upon touching the link on FB. Damn you Adam.
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You guys might as well go root for Ohio State while smoking pot and reading Das Kapital
I’m done with this site.
LOLE FOREVER
Friend of the Pants since 2009.
Don't blame the pot...
…and what if I’m reading Khrushchev’s Mein Kampf?
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2010 4:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Even Krissy knows this
LOLLERSKATES!!!
No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 2, 2010 8:24 PM CDT reply actions
you fuckin old people
It’s pronounced “LAWL” for gods sake! Jacobi set these bastards straight.
Oh and don’t forget your gerital and bengay you crusty old bastards.
I can't get behind that.
When Adam first pronounced “LOL” on the podcast, it sounded like he was saying “LAAAWLLLLAAWWLLLAWLLLW” whereas HS’s pronounciation was clean and to the point.
It’s like having that one announcer from the BTN (Don’t recall his name, think he does Packer games) say Hawkeyes and then calling out Brent Musburger to say “Huckize”. It’s not even close.
Friend of the Pants since 2009.
by ReadingRambler on Aug 2, 2010 11:12 PM CDT up reply actions
I know I'll get totall bitchslapped for this
But I NEVER pronounce it as a word. I say “ell oh ellverines” and “ell oh ellphers”.
I hate
the ellphers.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 3, 2010 1:33 AM CDT up reply actions
Hmmmm mole
Wait that’s pronounced molay. But I do the same moley moley… thing everytime I see the mole sauce at the store or on a restaurant menu. I usually even remember to not say it out loud.
52% of the people here live in Jit'ney Junction, Mississippi.
That’s the only way I can accept people who pronounce it like “mall.”
Do you pronounce “get” like “gitch” too?
I grew up in the south, and probably do say "get" as "git" more often than not.
I’d think that’s a little harder to notice, though.
by The Mexican't on Aug 3, 2010 10:54 AM CDT up reply actions
You already ordered your shirt, didn't you?
by The Mexican't on Aug 3, 2010 4:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Nope.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here"
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2010 7:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Per Wikipedia
Lawl or Lal: Pseudo-pronunciation of LOL. Saying “lawl” is sometimes meant in mockery of those who use the term LOL, and usually not meant as serious usage.
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