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Do you know how people of your target language do things differently in casual text messages/on the internet?

A good example: russians often drop the double dot from smiling face )))) vs. :)))) or how in some middle-eastern languages they write hhhhhhh instead of the "hahaha".

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[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For the OP's question, I see Japanese tweets (on bsky) write words using these small width characters like ｸﾞand ｷﾞfor emphasis and effect. That and they more often use those long emoji things like (( °ω° ))/

In Spanish, I've at least seen that people use jajaja instead of hahaha.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Japanese tweets always look so interesting, i feel like there is so much to their internet culture! And yeah the Spanish J sounding like H makes this funny to someone learning German :D