Work: Vocab test

Vocab test

By shut up. - this FML is from back in 2013 but it's good stuff - New Zealand

Today, I was mentioning to a coworker how there was a huge lull today in business. A young coworker then turned to me and sead in a snooty tone, "I think you mean a 'lol', it's pronounced L-O-L." FML

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Monday 11 November 2013 16:01

Things like this make me want my towel. Stupid people.

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JVIarijke 24

Monday 11 November 2013 17:39

OP, please, give a follow-up about how you/someone else corrected her and how she hopefully will never do that again? I'm not an native English speaker, but even I wouldn't have been that dumb to misunderstand this.