Prescription for self-awareness

[addedentry]

Some people feel superior for knowing when to use its and when to use it's (the possessive takes an apostrophe, of course). I feel superior to those people for knowing when it doesn't matter.

Recently I heard a strong opinion about the misuse of lol in place of a smiley. "It stands for 'laughing out loud'! You can't use it for your own jokes. That

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[monkeyhands]

The @ thing sort feels wrong to me when it comes to retweets. To me it's a synonym for "at". So "RT @billybragg" should mean "I'm retweeting something that I want billybragg to read", not "I'm retweeting something that billybragg just said".

I'm at peace with "lol" for your own jokes, though. It just means "Hi, I'm the office twat making a joke so unfunny that you wouldn't identify it as a joke if I looked deadpan, so I'm laughing nervously while talking. Looking forward to the Christmas party?"

[monkeyhands]

sort OF, I meant to say in the first line.

[brightybot]

A user on one of the tbox site's message boards used lol as punctuation. Iirc they posted a recipe: '200g sugar lol 300g flor lol' etc etc

[brightybot]

As we are discussing grammar I should point out that I was very unsure where to put the apostrophe in 'sites'. I probably should have rephrased the sentence as I'm really not sure it is grammatically correct anyway.

[monkeyhands]

I think you put the apostrophe in correctly.

[addedentry]

...and I think you put the icing on the cake.

[monkeyhands]

Please tell me that's a joke lol if not it's terrifying lol

[brightybot]

Nope lol it's completely true lol