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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…
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 ":)".
That feels like such an internet thing to do.
I 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.
I 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.
German is conspicuously absent…
Part of the family of haha, hehe and hihi is höhö in German, which can be used as a sarcastic laugh to a particularly bad joke, halfway between a ho-ho-ho and a hehe.
Also when speaking out loud, the pronunciation of lol in German is always "lol", as a word. I believe in English-speaking countries the letter by letter l-o-l is more common.