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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 154 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

hhhhh is like hahahah in chinese btw.

[–] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago

So they aren't chatting with Darth Vader? ☹️

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

哈哈哈哈哈哈 is laughter in 汉语, those messages are in 英语

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 31 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Brazilians write kkkkkkkk which confused me a lot

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] bartvbl@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The Spanish use jajajajaja afaik

[–] dindresto@lemmy.korz.dev 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

As a German, this always confuses me

[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

j is spoken similar to an h in Spanish. Juan is basically almost Huan.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Koreans use ㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎ (hhhhh) and ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (kkkkk). They also put ~~~~~ everywhere, apparently that makes things less serious.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In Japan they'll use either 笑笑笑 or wwww. Sometimes you see ハハハ which is a transliteration of hahaha.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 4 points 2 hours ago

Or there is the classic 草

[–] T4V0@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

It’s due to how the letter is spelled in brazilian portuguese, it more of a 'kah' sound, like a cackle.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 47 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for this. Whenever I type that sound, it's intended as like an exasperated sigh

[–] starik@lemmy.today 11 points 13 hours ago

I read it as hiss, but with a slack jaw and staring blankly ahead, like a zombie