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Emojis in written text can lose their meaning in translation. Your intended meaning may not be what your audience understands, but I guess that’s inherent in mo
by JohnMakin 3y ago
Emojis in written text can lose their meaning in translation. Your intended meaning may not be what your audience understands, but I guess that’s inherent in most communication.
I had a bunch of russian coworkers once, and one of them would constantly type “)))” any time I asked him a question. I thought it was some weird cyrillic keyboard quirk and never paid it any mind, until I learned it’s the approximate russian equivalent for “lol.”
Didn’t know what to make of him after that. I guess he thought I was a moron.
- veave 3y agoRussians do that. The first time I noticed it was in Counter-Strike. They would type ))) and the messages would look like this: Vladimir : ))) So I thought that they "reused" the colon that separated the name from the message. That was my theory at least...
- hammock 3y ago))) is just a beaming smile... derived from :) but without the eyes. Not exclusively Russian Separately, I remember years ago doing social media competitive audits and someone saw >>>>>> in there and thought it was errant text. E.g. "Taco Bell >>>>>>>". Of course what it means is Taco Bell is better than everything
- computerfriend 3y agoGit conflict emoji.
- watwut 3y agoI would interpret it as "leaving for Taco Bell"
- codq 3y agoKinda adds a whole new layer to the drone metal band sunnO)))
- skocznymroczny 3y agoYeah, )) is fairly common in Russia and neighboring countries such as Belarus or Armenia. Another one I encountered at work was a Taiwanese coworker ending sentences with a ~ character which apparently indicates "cute" / "playful"
- sznio 3y ago":" is cumbersome to type in on a Russian keyboard, so just ")" is used. Back in IRC days it would look like `vlad: )`