Do you capitalize lol, lmao, and other words?

[FernandoRocker]

Do these words follow regular grammatical and orthographic rules?

For example... Do you write lol, lmao, or LOL, LMAO? How about on an opening sentence? Do you write Lol, Lmao?

 

[aisback]

wrong part of the site and nope

 

[defaltoption]

Only when iOS auto corrects it for me

 

[NuclearCake]

wrong part of the site and nope

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LMAO

 

[Firestorm]

Depends how hard I'm laughing.

 

[RelaxItsJustMe]

lol no

The only time I capitalize either of them is when I'm using those words and nothing else in a sentence and usually only used as a reaction to something that was obviously very funny.

 

[Kamala]

It depends on severity of the laugh.

 

[Deleted member 70647]

i write lol as like a sentence ender usually, but when someone says something funny I capitalize it

 

[Deleted member 79058]

I almost never use lol, lmao etc. I'm more of a "Hahahahaha" or "hehe" kinda guy.
When I use it it's on non-capital letters, but I don't think there's rules for lol usage.

 

[pleaseinsertdisctwo]

For lol? No

for everything else tho? LMAOOOO

 

[The 8-Bit Raider]

My 19 year old daughter begs me not to use it but i do in order to embarrass her.

 

[Bradford]

lmaO!

 

[Lobster Roll]

Depends on the context. If somebody is acting foolish I might say "you seriously think the earth is flat come on lol". If Mitch McConnell got pied in the face on the senate floor I might react "fucking LMAO".

 

[Dogui]

Sometimes, if i feel like it.

 

[StrappingYoungLance]

Caps are reserved for when I'm really having a chuckle roftlmaool

 

[Professor Lich]

Short hand terms like these, and other jokey things, I always leave uncapped and short. My intent there is to help show that it's a joke / sarcastic.

 

[Kamek]

depends on how funny it is.

 

[julia crawford]

I write all kinds of words in all kinds of ways.

 

[FernandoRocker]

Wasn't there a guy here who invented lol but with numbers depending on how much funny the lol was?

• lol1
• lol2
• lol3

And so on.

 

[chrisPjelly]

lMaO

 

[UltraMav]

"lol" for regular humorous response. "LOL" for a legitimate laugh-out-loud moment.

 

[latex]

"lol" for regular humorous response. "LOL" for a legitimate laugh-out-loud moment.

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Basically. If it ain't all caps I didn't actually laugh.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

I don't even use those "words"

 

[UltraMav]

I don't even use those "words"

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"I don't even own a TV."

 

[UltimateHigh]

i capitalize as little as possible.

 

[mieumieu]

lol when I'm laughing, LOL when I'm REALLY laughing

 

[Quinton]

LOL no

 

[Randolph Freelander]

"I don't even own a TV."

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5 in a two bedroom apartment.

And all I watch on them is the weather channel and sports.







By the way, get off my lawn.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

lolno

 

[UltraMav]

5 in a two bedroom apartment.

And all I watch on them is the weather channel and sports.







By the way, get off my lawn.

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Well played, sir. I LOLed.

 

[Fat4all]

send tredders

 

[FTF]

Only when iOS auto corrects it for me

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yup, this.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

if you use capitals, you're a cop

 

[Steel]

L0l

rulez drool

 

[astro]

Lol or Lmao for something amusing, not necessity an actual IRL laugh but can be a light laugh.

LOL or LMAO = actual loud laughter.

 

[UltraGashInferno]

lmao in caps prob a few times if i really did get destroyed laughing and it was something super inside jokey

 

[weemadarthur]

Acronyms have special rules.
but THESE acronyms have NO rules, autocorrect gets to decide.

 

[Yokijirou]

I fight against iOS doing the Lol. I don't think I've ever used lmao.

 

[Ultimate Bear Cub]

idunnololz

 

[Deleted member 22630]

lOl LmAo

 

[Van Bur3n]

Capitalize if it's fookin' funny and you're actually laughin'. Lower case if it's just a light chuckle or only makes air come out ya nose.

 

[Tfritz]

depends on how i'm feeling. i'm whimsical like that.

 

[jb1234]

I never use the lowercase versions. They just sound uncommitted.

 

[Kapryov]

Lol.

 

[Pyccko]

NAH

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

I don't use those words but if I did I'd go lowercase cause seeing them in uppercase just annoys me. Especially lmao, people go all caps with that on the unfunniest stuff in the world.

 

[UltraMav]

Also:

 

[Strike]

nah

 

[echoshifting]

Lol.

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I go out of my way to never do this

 

[davepoobond]

Only when it is an lol 5