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If you use 'haha', you're probably old
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Re: If you use 'haha', you're probably old
#52The first paragraph resonated with me a little bit. When I was younger (14-16) I'd always try to type as correctly and "seriously" as possible. I literally thought everyone who didn't do the same was just stupid. My IMing style is pretty much the opposite nowadays. And as much as one hates being biased I have to admit I still judge people on their typing style a bit. It's pretty hard to gauge one's tone/feeling/attitude without having all the hahas, emoticons, smileys, redundant words etc. Do they not like me? Are they trying to be rude? Are they being creepy? Are they just not much of an internet chatter? Is that just an aspie-like trait?
Re: If you use 'haha', you're probably old
#53interestingly, in Korea the laugh is keke / kek / kkkk / etc., while in Japan the laugh is w / www / etc. Kind of like how animal sounds are very different across countries and cultures.
Korean actually has a generous share of onomatopoeic words: for laugh, there's at least haha, hehe, hoho, heoheo, huhu, and kkalkkal, and that's just counting more or less standardized words that would probably appear in most dictionaries and have well-understood connotations.
Interestingly, Korean internet somehow settled on ㅋㅋ (literally, "k k"): the closest word I can think of is 크크 (keukeu), which is... well, the kind of laugh a villain might make after explaining to a captured hero how he will be thrown into an elaborate death trap.
(And don't believe some internet sources that say Koreans laugh "kekeke". It's simply because the sound I wrote as "eu" ("Close central unrounded vowel", or /ɨ/) has no English counterpart, so people wasn't sure how to write that in English. Besides, nobody's gonna pronounce "keukeukeu" correctly anyway, so why bother.)
Re: If you use 'haha', you're probably old
#54All of these have different meanings to me: ha haha hah aha ahaha 'ha ha' hahaha HA HAHAHA hahahahahahah haaahaaa lol LOL LMAO lawl elohel 'ha, ha' ha. heh hehe bwahaha 'ha,' though it's really hard to describe exactly the differences between them. context: I'm in my twenties and grew up using AIM and FB and playing MMOs. I think those are all relevant to the exact 'vernacular' I've ended up with.
Don't forget "lolololololol", which is different in meaning from all those you listed. (Specifically it is a form of sardonic laughter, as in "did you hear that Trump is running for president again?" "wtf no again?? / lololololol".)
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Re: If you use 'haha', you're probably old
#55Fifteen years ago, I got temporarily banned from an English-speaking IRC channel (#gamedev on AfterNET) for my part in instigating the ironic usage of "kekeke", which was very well known at the time due to the popularity of Starcraft in South Korea.
Re: If you use 'haha', you're probably old
#56interestingly, in Korea the laugh is keke / kek / kkkk / etc., while in Japan the laugh is w / www / etc. Kind of like how animal sounds are very different across countries and cultures.
I always had the impression kek was a joke-version of lol
lol -> lolz -> lulz -> lel -> kek
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#57In my experience and if I'm remembering correctly, hehe and haha were equally common on the dial up BBSs. I've used both all these years.
I don't think the connotations have changed!
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#58Re: If you use 'haha', you're probably old
#59In Arabic, people use هههه (hhhh) without vowels because of the Arabic Harakat (حَرَكَات) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics
Same in Hebrew: חחחח (hhhh)
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#60The cool kids don't say 'lol' any more because uncool old people have started using it. Not it's all about 'lel' or 'kek' If it's really funny 'top kek'
So... WTF is 'kek'?