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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Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff

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TIL that if the SR-71 was attacked by surface-to-air missiles, it simply flew higher, faster, and in a slightly different direction to outrun them. : r/todayilearned

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