*lol* ist kein Wort, es ist nicht einmal die Abkürzung eines Wortes. Was *lol* und *hey* sein könnten, hat der amerikanische Linguist John McWhorter in einem sehr unterhaltsamen Video analysiert.
Our language, much like everything these days, has been hacked. Fuzzy, contentious, and complex ideas have been stripped of their subversive connotations and replaced by cleaner, shinier, and emptier alternatives; long-running debates about politics, rights, and freedoms have been recast in the seemingly natural language of economics, innovation, and efficiency.
D. Schlör, J. Pfister, and A. Hotho. 2023 the 7th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI), page 136–141. New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, (2023)
D. Schlör, J. Pfister, and A. Hotho. 2023 the 7th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI), page 136–141. New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, (2023)
M. Schwab, R. Jäschke, and F. Fischer. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, page 99--109. Association for Computational Linguistics, (2023)