New Punctuation Marks

I theorize that internet slang like LOL and WTF will eventually turn to punctuation marks. Lol will be a modified '!' sense it entails excitement but more specifically humor excitement. WTF will, of course, be a modified '?' sense it evokes question yet a more surprised question. Am I right?

Am I right?

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Lol has already lost its original meaning, people use it as more of a polite chuckle, or as excitement, so I see what you mean, but I doubt we'll include Fuck in a punctuation mark.

I include Fuck in a punctuation mark all the time.

I think WTF has already been summed up with the interrobang


Which was usde in place of '!?' as in "I just ate a what!?"

hmm this is close, but not sufficient. We still need lol punctuated! And they need a regular space on the keyboard.

But I almost like saying interrobang more than wtf.

It works for wtf but not for lol.

You could always use the Irony Mark for lol because how often do we use 'lol' when we laugh out loud anymore?

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I like ?! better than !?.  It can also be modified to the correct proportions of surprise and questioning.  The interrobang is somewhat useless.

As for lol: :D  There you go.

The way I see it, punctuation is used to recreate speech effects, so I'm not sure 'WTF?' or 'lol' wil become 'punctuation'. I think it's much more likely that 'lol' will become a spoken phrase in English.

But I've noticed that people start putting lol at the end of their sentences. I can see it being sucked in by grammar since its not really part of the sentence but defines how the sentence should be read as.

I do see where you're coming from, but I just feel it's more likely that people will start saying 'lol' in everyday speech than using it becoming an official kind of punctuation. I mean, I know people who say 'lol' ironically in real life, and the way I see it it's only a matter of time before it becomes a word. Becoming punctuation... I just think it's more of a stretch. It can't be both, and I think it'll become a word first.

I wonder how it will be perverted. Will there one day be a word such as "eloll" as people get lazy and slowly combine the spoken letters, or if people will start to pronounce it, "lawl" being the spelling.