Geez, we use it enough around here. Guess he's kinda slow? lol!
2007-07-01 01:31:49 · 22 answers · asked by SavvySue 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Sue, all you have to do is highlight it, right click it, and click on "add to dictionary" and it will do just that. It's the dictionary in YOUR computer which is the one which works, not any Yahoo! Answers dictionary. They only pick words they don't like (and some I, as an Australian, find quite inoffensive) and replace them with asterisks.
2007-07-01 01:37:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because spell checking programs are electronic versions of dictionaries. And dictionaries are written by old men in ivory towers who tend to be a bit haughty about today's internet slang.
That being said, I bet it will be in the dictionaries in 50 years, when today's cool kids are old and have moved into these towers.
It will probably become a regular verb, and I could imagine the spellng gets "regularized" a bit once the original meaning of the acronym fades: I lole, you lole, he loles, I loled, I have loled. (Just the way we write OK as "okay" today.)
2007-07-01 08:56:50 · answer #2 · answered by Bqggz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, lol is abbreviation for laugh out loud. It's not a word. So, you can just ignore the spell check on lol. =)
2007-07-01 09:33:48 · answer #3 · answered by =) 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
despite how much we use LOL it's not officially a word so spell check doesn't recognize it yet. it will probably be added to the dictionary soon because new words are added based on their frequency of use.
2007-07-01 08:35:18 · answer #4 · answered by mark f 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Spell check wasnt designed to correct acronyms or abbreviations.
2007-07-01 08:35:38 · answer #5 · answered by Onomatopoeia 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not a phone book, but a dictionary and does not recognize acronyms.
2007-07-01 08:53:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It not a word thats why but yeah you are right lol
2007-07-01 08:36:32 · answer #7 · answered by Magster 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is because it's an acronym. Laugh out loud!
2007-07-01 08:54:59 · answer #8 · answered by caps lock 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well this spell becomes on it's own coz LOL is short term of LAUGH OUT LOUD... and people use mostly short term...!!!!!!!
2007-07-01 11:19:33 · answer #9 · answered by Winnie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can program it so it will. You can modify it to accept/recognize your pet abbreviations, an unusually spelled name, anything. }:>
2007-07-01 08:41:41 · answer #10 · answered by Ja'aj };> 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋