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How different languages laugh online
- lbussell 3y agoI’m curious about “L” being a curse world in Cantonese. I looked it up but couldn’t find anything about this.
- BalinKing 3y agoI don't know for sure how accurate this is, but I'm guessing it's the first entry in this Wiktionary definition: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/L#Chinese https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/L#Chinese.
- sy7ar 3y agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%92%9A#Definitions_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%92%9A#Definitions_2
- qazxcvbnm 3y agoCan corroborate the previous replies; or taking the initials of the words like `sls` is common these days
- robjan 3y agoIt's the word 撚 which means penis (lan2 which sounds more like "lun"). You can pretty much stick it between many words, much like "fucking" in English, to add emphasis.
- ajimix 3y agoThey didn’t mention that in Spain most people use xD which is the emoticon of laughing in its written version. It can be used in different capitalizations: xD XD xd
- slekker 3y agoDon't forget Xd, which I see used in "absurd" but funny situations.
- Pingk 3y agoWonderfully uplifting, I love the idea of people quacking for a good joke! (Indonesia)
- mysterydip 3y agoGrowing up, I would see people type "jajaja" and thought the way they laughed was literally saying "jah jah jah". It was much later that I put two and two together and realized it was Spanish and actually pronounced "hahaha".
- xvedejas 3y agoIn a certain gaming community, we laugh not with "lol" but with "11", since that plays a laughing taunt. This extends to chats outside of the game itself
- potsandpans 3y agoWhy not just say aoe2? We're not a tight knit crew
- pard68 3y agoAnd in World of Warcrft it's "kek"
- esperent 3y agoActually from Starcraft, it's the Korean way to say hahaha (kekeke).
- rented_mule 3y agoI don't speak or read Korean, but I think kekeke might be a transliteration of ㅋㅋㅋ - I've seen that frequently enough in Korean language comments on YouTube that I've looked it up before. A quick web search led me to more Korean lols and hahas... https://domandhyo.com/2017/07/lol-in-korean-%E3%85%8B%E3%85%8B%E3%85%8B.html https://domandhyo.com/2017/07/lol-in-korean-%E3%85%8B%E3%85%...
- logbiscuitswave 3y agoㅋㅋㅋ is literally “kkk” but it’s shorthand for 크크크 (keukeukeu). There’s also ㅎㅎㅎ (hhh) that shorthand for 하하하 (hahaha). It’s much faster to just mash out those single consonants, sort of like keyboard spam laughing.
- zipping1549 3y agoㅎㅎㅎ is definietly not for 하하하. It's more like 흐흐흐 or 히히히, just like hehe in English.
- asimovfan 3y agoWasnt it bcs alliance text appeared different to horde and kek translated to lol
- tnecniv 3y agoYeah or the other way around. I thought I saw orcs kek’ing as an alliance character. They’d mangle text spoken in languages you didn’t know, and horde / alliance did not have any language overlap.
- nlawalker 3y agoNot one mention of huahuehuahue? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/huahuehuahue https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/huahuehuahue
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- petesergeant 3y agoPfff, anything missing that Thais write 55555 (because 5 in Thai is "hâː") is missing a trick. Also, FWIW, I've always thought the numeral (when written in Thai, which is a bit unusual) looks like the cereal-spit guy ๕: https://obs.line-scdn.net/0hTLsunG_HC2NODB-jHVl0NHZaBxJ9ahFqbDkUA2peBVZmIEw9IGtYAG1bV08zORlhbmhCA21YAVE0NE5gIA/w644 https://obs.line-scdn.net/0hTLsunG_HC2NODB-jHVl0NHZaBxJ9ahFq... (update: oh, I scrolled down and found it. It was immune to being found with Ctrl-F)
- orangeboats 3y agoMeanwhile, the Chinese use 555 to express the opposite emotion: crying! Because 555 (wu wu wu) sounds very similar to 呜呜呜 (also wu wu wu), an onomatopoeia for the crying sound. 555 is a bit of a dated expression nowadays though, it saw greater use during the SMS era. It's especially interesting since "five" in both languages are cognates with each other, having descended from Old Chinese /ŋaːʔ/.
- lawgimenez 3y agoThere’s also bwahahaha or wakekeke.
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- ahazred8ta 3y agoMuahahaha pairs nicely with "Fools! I'll destroy them all!" https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-use-of-the-fools-ill-show-them-all/571710 https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-use-of-the-fools-... (it was in circulation in the 1800s)
- lambdasquirrel 3y agoGerman is conspicuously absent…
- askonomm 3y agoGermans and laughter go together like two north poles of a magnet.
- pjmlp 3y agoOnly for those that don't speak the language. German humor is not that different from British dark/satiric humor and there is plenty of it around here.
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- whycome 3y agoI definitely don't see much German humor around here. This place tends to be pretty dry.
- pjmlp 3y agoI suggest attending some Poetry Slam rounds, NightWash sessions, or some mix of Dieter Nuhr, Torsten Sträter, Bülent Ceylan, Jan Böhmermann, Felix Lobrecht among others. Plenty of humor styles to chose from.
- KineticLensman 3y agoThe german sense of humour is no laughing matter
- MichaelMoser123 3y agothis sentence sounds like British humor (or is it humour?)
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- fortran77 3y agoחחחחחחח is the only Hebrew one I've seen; I've never seen לול used in chats.
- names_are_hard 3y agoI've seen it, but rarely and maybe ironically. I've never seen למאו and probably wouldn't get it if I did.
- yaky 3y agoA few more unique laughs I recall, in Russian: Бгг: more of a guffaw, or a "heh" Ржунимагу: "Laughing, I can't [stop]", close to LMAO or ROFL
- AlexeyBelov 3y agoThose are from the 00's and are not used anymore.
- georgeburdell 3y agoMy Vietnamese friends used hihihi (pronounced: heeheehee). This was years ago though
- adrianmsmith 3y agoDefinitely noticed that people from some countries (Eastern Europe?) write "ahahah" instead of "hahaha" when expressing amusement when writing English.
- ludwik 3y agoIn Polish you can do both, and at least to me they feel slightly different - the first "a" represents the small pause while you quickly take in the air before you start laughing. To me this indicates an element of being surprised, and the reaction being natural. I think that "ahaha" is a lot less likely to be used sarcastically than "haha". Anyway, those are just my intuition as a native speaker - I'm not sure whether it is universal, I never discussed this with anyone before.
- adontz 3y agoSpeakers of different languages express laugh differently in English too. Native English speakers write "hahaha" or "ha-ha-ha", but speakers of many Slavic languages write "ahahaha" or "a-ha-ha-ha", with leading "a". Native English speakers write ":)", but speakers of many Slavic languages write just ")", because ":" is reused on keyboard for additional Cyrillic letters (like Ж) and they don't use it even when typing in English. Georgians reuse not only ":დ" as ":D", but basically any English acronym "ლოლ" for lol, "ლმაო" for "lmao", because standard Georgian layout is based on English US layout and it feels natural. Exception is ROFL, because Georgian lacks "F" sound.
- TheMatten 3y ago> Speakers of different languages express laugh differently in English too. > > Native English speakers write "hahaha" or "ha-ha-ha", but speakers of many Slavic languages write "ahahaha" or "a-ha-ha-ha", with leading "a". > > Native English speakers write ":)", but speakers of many Slavic languages write just ")", because ":" is reused on keyboard for additional Cyrillic letters (like Ж) and they don't use it even when typing in English. Of course there's difference between eastern and western slavic languages, because western ones use latin. In those, I've mostly seen "haha", both when talking in english and in $SLAVIC. At the same time, they can easily write ":)".
- ceritium 3y agoI have never seen "memeo" in a spanish chat. I saw jaja, jeje,jojo, jiji, even juju and larger variants. We also use xD (smile with closed eyes and laughtin) or longer versions like xdddddddddd or lol (loooooooool). "Me meo" is a real expresión, but not so common, i like to say "me deshorino" like satirical expresión.
- danielEM 3y agoMissing ones from Poland: hehehe hihihi buhahaha huehuehue
- mmmuhd 3y agoLwkmd, Laugh kill me die, Nigerians, we are just Naturally funny.
- kopirgan 3y ago555
- pjmlp 3y agoAfrican and European Portuguese also use rsrsrs, LOL, hehehe.
- ramon156 3y agoKeyboard spam is not limited to turkish youngsters, in fact it's fairly common on the internet.
- pindab0ter 3y agoI just love how in Japan they went from “笑う” (warau, to laugh) to “笑” (wara) to “w” to “www” to “草” (kuchi, grass, because “www” kinda looks like grass) to “大草原” (daisougen, great plain/prairie/steppe). That feels like such an internet thing to do.
- ho4 3y ago草 is "kusa", not "kuchi"
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- glimshe 3y agoI like "lol" because the letters are so close together on the keyboard! But the Brazilian Portuguese "kkkk" is hard to beat in laughing efficiency...
- Aerbil313 3y agoskldkfşdldldjjddkldjdlslsdjkd I’m amazed to learn that we are the only nation that uses keyboard spam for laughing. Why? It’s funny!
- rmellow 3y agoNope, in Brazilian Portuguese oakspkskoapsks is a thing. We also do rsrsrs, kkkkk, hehe, haha, hihi, ahuahauh and huehue. A few more here: https://zooando.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/tipos-de-risadas-do-msn/ https://zooando.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/tipos-de-risadas-do...
- prepend 3y agoFunny I always used “kk” as a faster way to type “ok.” I wonder how many times that’s been interpreted as me laughing by.
- chromion1212 3y agoWe Indonesian use: wkwkwk. the more barbaric among us often use aowkoawk.
- rezaprima 3y agoAnd of course hahaha, hehehe, or wakakak