Welcome to the FUTURE
A similar conversation in 1998 would have gone a little differently.
Sakisenpai: "lol"
Shawn: "You and those damn acronyms... can't you just say 'ha ha that is funny?'"
(it took "lol" and "wtf" a while to become common use, too)
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