With the spread of the World Wide Web and social networks around the world, we are faced with a new phenomenon - the spontaneous appearance of new slang words, which are so easy not to keep track of. Russian users here are not far behind their foreign counterparts - by going into public discussions on the same VKontakte, we daily find new outlandish words in user messages. Most often these are free and intentionally redone transcriptions of foreign words, perverted Russian phrases and concepts. One of these, far from new in the Internet, but still poorly understood by a large number of users, is the word "lalka".
What does lalka mean?
Let's start by listing the interpretations of this jargon. What does the word "lalka" mean?
- A man who is verbally bullied is taunted in discussions on social networks.
- A clown, a jester, a user who pretends to be funny, stupid, similar to some kind of stereotype (a woman whom everyone owes, a shirt-guy, a near-by girl, etc.) in order to amuse the audience.
- A user who said something very stupid, but at the same time funny.
- "Trolled" user. What does it mean "messed with a stick"? He humiliated, "leaked", insulted, presented him as funny, absurd, and not-so-small on social networks - these are the meanings of the verb "troll" ("trawl", "trash" - his more modern formations). “Troll” in this context is a user who purposefully humiliates, ridicules, incites the user to conflict with the goal of exposing others to his stupid and aggressive “lalka”.
- In some cases - a girl of easy virtue, exposed and humiliated by members of the online community.
Similar derivations
If you are interested in what a lalka means in VK, then we will introduce you to words that have similar meanings:
- Lalk is a man who screwed up a little.
- Lal - well, very funny.
- Lalya is a mockingly affectionate appeal to a girl about whom the user has no better opinion.
- Lolochka is a mocking appeal to a person who seems near-minded. The same as the word "fool", "fool."
- Lalez - and this is how some users can call a beautiful and sexy woman, girl in their opinion.
- Lalny is a funny person.
- Lali - a girl, a very young girl (from "loli", Lolita - after the heroine of the work of Nabokov).
Examples of use
Familiarity with what Lalka means will help you get to know this word in context. Here are some examples of its possible use:
- Well, you and Lalka! How could you fall in love with her?
- The buyers of these smartphones are just lulks, they are being conducted on the brand awareness, without looking at the quality and functionality.
- He again “bred” in the “comments” of the laloks.
- When Petya is bored, he trawls lalok in VK.
- It can be said that in this dispute they messed up just like a lalk.
Origin of the word
But the roots of such a mocking word are very harmless. Let's look at his story.
Those who have access to the Internet remember in the 2000s that LOL is a designation of a fun smiley grinning and grinning in all its teeth in the once popular "ICQ". However, not all the chats and discussions of that period supported the decoration of speech with emoticons, so somewhere I had to be content with the simple inscription LOL, which meant "I'm funny."
LOL eventually transformed into the Russian transcription "lol" - everyone knew perfectly well what the user wanted to say.
Then they began to call a “lolom" a person who is capable of provoking laughter, making a good joke, and cheering. "Lol" also testified that the text, picture, video, where it is present, should be guaranteed to be funny and funny.
And hereinafter, they began to call "a lol" the one who cheered the crowd not of his own free will - he wrote something ridiculous, expressed an unpopular or stereotypical opinion, and froze stupidity.
The next stage is related to the popularization of such pastimes on the Internet as "trolling", "trolling". There is nothing to do, in an attempt to amuse their pride, to show their supposedly erudition, sarcasticity, wit in the Internet society, "trolls" began to appear. They seek out in general forums, in chats and discussions of users who are easily exposed to provocations, who have no opinions of their own, are not far off in a number of issues, and begin to verbally terrorize them, "lower them". When the poor guy ends his arguments, he writes obvious stupidity or simply “merges”, the “troll” triumphantly declares: “I’ve hurt Lalk!”
What does this word mean today, we have already told you. Also on the open spaces of the Runet there is such an expression as "Lalka, sasai!" It can mean like an obscene phrase, or something like "Go take a rest!", "Get out!".
Another meaning of the word
Few "trolls" know that a lalka is a completely harmless concept in the Old Slavonic language. It is synonymous with the word "jaw" or "gum". This concept is not primordial; it was borrowed from the Finno-Ugric dialect.
What does lalka mean? There is no doubt that after calling someone with this word, a person wants to "have fun" or mock his interlocutor. The best answer to such a statement is to completely ignore the troll.