I have heard it said, by some popularizer of English or other

I have heard it said, by some popularizer of English or other, that today's "lol" is no longer the pure "lol" of two decades ago, but rather that it has evolved into some weird discourse marker that is almost a punctuation mark (I'm improvising here; I can't remember whether that linguist actually…

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