On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:19:00AM +0200, Bernd Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 18:01 -0400, bofh wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:16 PM, neal hogan <n...@lambdaserver.com> wrote: > > > I'd never say 'laf' before, so I did the usual and of course it is an > > > acronym for many, many things . . . in this case I think it stands for > > > 'LOL Anime Fanboys' -theFreeDictionary.com > > > > > > Am I far off? > > > > No idea. Been using it as a short form of laugh for years and years > > and years (I was on usenet 19 years ago, not sure if I started using > > it then) > > You may even have seen it from a native german speaker, 'laf' > pronounced in german sounds almost identical to 'laugh' in oxford > english what we learn at school.
That's cheating . . :-) We all speak English here. (I'm done driving this off-topic, but glad it moved to something of substance) > > Siggy
