Monday, March 23, 2009

Flarf in class freewrite

I choose the second topic to write about. I will take the word "lol" as a prime example of a Flarfy word. The word "lol" came about on the internet, it is a product of online communications, of chatting over the internet. In this way, it is precisely like Flarf in that it is the direct product of the internet. The meaning of the word has taken on many abstractions from the original "laugh out loud." Now, like many words in the English language, its meaning is dependent on context. However, because it is an online term, and context can only be determined by vocabulary, "lol" creates a context, it immediately triggers in the receiver a set of emotions.

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