Growing 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".
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).
I don't speak or read Korean, but I think kekeke might be a transliteration of ㅋㅋㅋ - I've seen that frequently enough in Korean language comments on YouTube that I've looked it up before. A quick web search led me to more Korean lols and hahas... https://domandhyo.com/2017/07/lol-in-korean-%E3%85%8B%E3%85%...
If your language has its own word for the concept of taking pleasure in other people's misfortunes, you don't need to have any great comedians (left [0]) to be able to laugh.
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.
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 in English.
Georgians reuse not only ":დ" as ":D", but basically any English acronym "ლოლ" for lol, "ლმაო" for "lmao", because standard Georgian layout is based on English US layout and it feels natural. Exception is ROFL, because Georgian lacks "F" sound.
> Speakers of different languages express laugh differently in English too.
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> 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".
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> 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 in English.
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 ":)".
They 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
It's the word 撚 which means penis (lan2 which sounds more like "lun"). You can pretty much stick it between many words, much like "fucking" in English, to add emphasis.
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That feels like such an internet thing to do.
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German humor is not that different from British dark/satiric humor and there is plenty of it around here.
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.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO1No7HWT6Q
[0] https://webcomicname.com/
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 in English.
Georgians reuse not only ":დ" as ":D", but basically any English acronym "ლოლ" for lol, "ლმაო" for "lmao", because standard Georgian layout is based on English US layout and it feels natural. Exception is ROFL, because Georgian lacks "F" sound.
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 ":)".