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Urviben Patel
March 15, 2016
Eng-112-39
Professor Intawiwat
Response to Question 4
Neologism means an invented word. There are new words that are created every year.
There will be some words that will catch the audiences attention and will have a greater impact
on the culture. Since social media has taken the world into its hands the world LOL has
become the most popular neologism. It was first established and used in the 1990s and was used
in an email. Later it was picked up by the younger generation. When a person texts he quiet often
uses the word LOL which mean laugh out loud in the urban slang. When you get a funny
message from your friend you would probably reply by typing LOL with a few laughing emojis,
but the fact is that the person is not laughing as hard as it may seem on the text message. In
addition, this is the first time in history that people have been communicating through text, and
since everyone is so busy in their own life they do not even have time to type a long message or
a word and so they starts using the internet slang the biggest one being LOL. This has produced
and immense impact on the teens. They try to express their face-to face emotions through text.
The word LOL has gained so much importance that it has been added to the oxford English
dictionary. Many people say that it is the death of the dictionary.

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