In my personal experience "ha ha" is an almost default result of trying to avoid "lol." Why I try to avoid lol is a deeper question, but it has to do with AOL and how AOL looked from Compuserve in the early 90's. Anyway, yes I'm old.
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If you use 'haha', you're probably old
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#32Another 'haha'er here. I can't stand LOL, though this TED [1] talk gives an interesting look at its use. [1] http://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_lan...
I can't stand lol either, I recently was taught by my daughter that I was using heh a bit too liberally, and hurt her feelings. In rl its pretty hard to get more than a smirk from me, been using hehe more, correctly or not...
IMHO "lol" needs to die and take "meh" with it. I have no idea where the latter came from...some rancid corner of Memeville, TV no doubt.
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#33What about kekeke?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Likewise, I only use "Haha" for things that are truly funny. "lol" is reserved primarially to lend a degree of self-awareness to a particularly absurd or stupid statement that I say or recieve.
I only say 'lol' ironically.
Interestingly, I use 'lol' "seriously", and use 'heh' and 'hehe' ironically.
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#35In Thailand, the default is "555" since the word five in Thai is pronounced "ha". Everyone in Thailand knows what it means, and the rest of the world must think we're crazy.
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#36Haha :-)
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#37And if you use muahaha you're probably a villain of some kind.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't stand lol either, I recently was taught by my daughter that I was using heh a bit too liberally, and hurt her feelings. In rl its pretty hard to get more than a smirk from me, been using hehe more, correctly or not...
IMHO "lol" needs to die and take "meh" with it. I have no idea where the latter came from...some rancid corner of Memeville, TV no doubt.
'meh' was largly popularized by The Simpsons.
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#39I used "haha" mostly to avoid saying "lol." As crazy as it sounds, I got too lazy to keep doing that. Lol is all wIth one hand, and doesn't denote true laughter. It's more, "I received your message" than anything.
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#40I always took he he as a making fun of, like Nelson from the Simpsons.