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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Nobody uses kkkk kkkk in Portugal

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Nobody I know in Germany uses lach

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

What does "asg" mean, that's on Sweden? I'm a swede and never seen that.

Edit: I looked it up and didn't find anything at first but did after a couple of different searches. Apparently it's an abbreviation of "asgarvar" (basically just means laughing your ass off). But neither the word or the abbreviation is common at all. We use "haha" or "lol".
This just makes me believe more of the map is not correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It was definitely the go-to abbreviation during the early days of the internet, at least in my circles. Nowadays we've become so anglicised that everyone just uses English norms instead.

I remember using asg as a kid/young teen, and I remember people at the time were looking down on those using "lol" or "rofl" instead, calling them silly posers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Considering where the ja ja is, its actually pronounced more like kha kha, so it's more similar than it looks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I love this. The evolution of the slang is so interesting. I read somewhere else that Japan started to use the symbol for "grass" to mean great laughter because the initial abbreviation "www" looks like blades of grass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

glop glop cha cha chaaaaaa

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit! China laughs in math... Japan knows the internet is a joke.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Another one Japan uses is "草" (pronounced: kusa) the kanji for "grass". Because "wwwww" looks like a field a grass

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

For anyone that was confused about why "wwwww"s like me: https://kotaku.com/in-japan-people-do-not-lol-they-wwww-5986170

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

And also you laugh a lot when smoking grass.