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Did you know ? Eastern europeans end words (without space) with singles characters "(" and ")" to indicate full smileys. Only themselves understand each others
by ttoinou 3y ago
Did you know ? Eastern europeans end words (without space) with singles characters "(" and ")" to indicate full smileys. Only themselves understand each others and they dont tell anyone about it)))
- agubelu 3y agoWhy eastern europeans in particular? Is it somehow related to slavic languages? Now I'm curious
- Tenoke 3y agoI'm guessing they are overgeneralizing since I'm a Bulgarian and I haven't really seen anyone do that.
- computerfriend 3y agoI also thought it was an Eastern European thing. Would be nice to see a map of prevalence of this trend.
- ttoinou 3y agoYeah sorry I meant far-eastern europeans
- sznio 3y agoIt's the Russian keyboard layout that makes ":" difficult to type. In Poland we just use the US keyboard layout so that's not a problem. I assume it's similar for other non-cyrillic slavic languages.
- ttoinou 3y agoWeird, I've seen poles do that
- akarlsten 3y agoFrom my old WoW-playing days, I was given to understand that : was awkward to reach on cyrillic keyboards, so many of the russians skipped it and just used ) or even %) sometimes (which sort of looks like eyes and a nose if you squint)