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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thagdal" data-source="post: 6011791" data-attributes="member: 95215">What cop out did I use in my post? I don't personally use lol in my speech.I'm sure you have witnessed people 'called out' for using slang not appropriate to the group norm. I've seen people 'called out' for far sillier reasons.I wouldn't ascribe the use of someone saying lol to be because they couldn't properly speak 'laughter' out loud.Whether you, I or anyone else likes it, language changing primarily due to laziness (which is how I'm interpreting your term sloppiness) or shortening words and phrases. For example, using can't instead of can not.Other reasons words spring into use is about social cliques, of which lol was a pretty good example actually in its first verbal useage - it's really a bit too <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/LOL?q=lol" target="_blank">mainstream</a> for tween/teens now to be just a clique thing nowdays. Personally I find people saying lol far less irritating than excessive use of 'like' or profanities or many other choices of slang people use. Language evolves. Not always in the way people would like.</blockquote>