New Words In The English Language?

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I saw someone using 'loling' as the act of laughing out loud (= lol)

FrancescaI saw someone using 'loling' as the act of laughing out loud (= lol)

Hi Francesca

Let's bid the word welcome to the English language. However, since there is only one vowel (o) between two consonants (l and l) in a stressed syllable, it should be spelledlolling. (Cf. getting, forgetting; but targeting, even though I remember the BBC once spelling it wrong in connexion with the Iraq War)

Cheers
CB

hey Cool Breeze, that's what I thought too and I used to write 'lolling' but I have discovered that lolling has a totally different meaning since it is a real English word.

To have a confirmation of what I've just said look at the following:

[url=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=loling ]Urban dictionary[/url]

[url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lolling ]the free dictionary[/url]

Cheers

Francescahey Cool Breeze, that's what I thought too and I used to write 'lolling' but I have discovered that lolling has a totally different meaning since it is a real English word.

To have a confirmation of what I've just said look at the following:

[url=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=loling ]Urban dictionary[/url]

[url= ]the free dictionary[/url]

Cheers

Thanks for the information, Francesca. Of course those who want to use loling/lolling can decide how to spell it. If it conformed to English spelling rules, it would be lolling even if there already is such a word with another meaning. I won't have spelling problems with the word because I'm not a teenager any more and never use words like loling.

CB

Yes, I do think that everyone can decide how to spell it

Anyway, I'm no longer a teen too, I think I wrote it just once in my whole life while chatting in TCP just to make people laugh for the new word but I use 'lol' very often, I think it's more convenient than writing the whole sentence

Blog is a rather overused new word: blogging, blogosphere, etc.

Personally, I've heard a lot of "make my day" and "get a life" expressions.

You can keep with the current language changes on:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1728_uptodate /
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1130_uptodate2