WTF?!, on the other hand, allows for no insinuation, no ambiguity. whiskey tango foxtrot (NATO radio phonetic alphabet) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WTF LOL! Younger people indicate a simple pause with a line break or a new message; they “infer emotional meaning” from an ellipsis because they wonder what it’s doing there, and what it might be insinuating.