This is no laughing matter. Gen Z has canceled the fan-favorite acronym LOL. Instead, the slang-savvy generation has coined a more complicated term in lieu of laugh out loud: IJBOL. For the uninit ...

A Korean word? A new boy band? This new acronym is replacing LOL and ROFL on social media. By Shirley Wang First there was LOL (“laugh out loud”), an acronym that first appeared in the 1980s ...

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The internet slang term "LOL" (laughing out loud) has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, to the mild dismay of language purists. But where did the term originate? And is it really a ...