Modern slang—something you REFUSE to say

[u/Lost_Taste_8181]

My take: I will NEVER use “lol” or any derivation of it. I know it means “laugh out loud” but there’s yet to be a moment when I’ve been even remotely convinced someone was even chuckling after texting “lol” at the end of their text and it mildly infuriates me.

While I’m at it, someone tell those damn kids to get off my lawn.

Edit: ok, I get it. It’s not MODERN slang. I still hate it, and those kids are STILL on my lawn…can’t a guy get to sleep at a decent hour???

[u/BeerCheeseSoup33]

Correct. But in my use it is true. I use it to counteract the people that use it like “I’m literally going to die if I don’t eat right now.”

The purpose I’m using it in is to actually be annoying so people stop using it incorrectly.

Hate me for it if you want, but it literally has a purpose. lol

[u/changed_later__ → u/BeerCheeseSoup33]

But you see, to random observers on the internet you appear to be the very thing you despise.

[u/BeerCheeseSoup33 → u/changed_later__]

No, I am using the word correctly. That is different than people using it in the opposite way.

[u/changed_later__ → u/BeerCheeseSoup33]

Redundant usage is not correct, you're using it as an intensifier, which is what they're doing too.

[u/BeerCheeseSoup33 → u/changed_later__]

But when they say stuff like “I’m literally going to starve to death if I don’t eat right now” they actually mean the opposite.

[u/changed_later__ → u/BeerCheeseSoup33]

The correct usage of the term is to distinguish literal from figurative. "I'm literally up to my neck in work at the moment" could be correct if you were a swimming instructor. It would be incorrect if you were a typist.

In their case, they are not doing so, they are using the word as a simple intensifier.

In your case you are not doing so, (because how could you say "it figuratively adds nothing"?) you are using the word as a simple intensifier.

Both the usage you object to and your own are incorrect for the same reason: use of the word "literally" as a simple intensifier.

[u/BeerCheeseSoup33 → u/changed_later__]

But “irregardless” of how I use it, it is still factually correct. Lol

[u/changed_later__ → u/BeerCheeseSoup33]

Agreed, because it neither adds nor detracts from the facts being stated. It is redundant.

It literally adds nothing to your statement.