How different languages laugh online
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How different languages laugh online
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Re: How different languages laugh online
#2I’m curious about “L” being a curse world in Cantonese. I looked it up but couldn’t find anything about this.
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#3They 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
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#4I’m curious about “L” being a curse world in Cantonese. I looked it up but couldn’t find anything about this.
I 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.
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#5Wonderfully uplifting, I love the idea of people quacking for a good joke! (Indonesia)
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#6Growing 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".
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#7I’m curious about “L” being a curse world in Cantonese. I looked it up but couldn’t find anything about this.
Re: How different languages laugh online
#8In 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
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#9And in World of Warcrft it's "kek"
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#10Not one mention of huahuehuahue?