>>It is a construct, but a lol inserted in a middle of a sentence surely isn't one, simply because it's not a sentence, it's an insertion, and IIRC it's "laughING out loud". Probably comes from all the IRC /me syntax.
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>>Speaking of sentences, is "you get a life" a short or a long sentence?
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>Umm... Hard for me to say, because judging by the time stamp on this message I don't appear to HAVE a life.
Let me rephrase, which sentence is longer:
"You get a life"
or
"You get twenty years to life"