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Not necessarily an acronym, but here’s a fun one for Japanese: Laughing in Japanese is warau, which gets shortened when typing to just w. If you want to laugh a lot, you would type wwww. That ends up looking like a field of grass, so that in turn gets shortened into 草 (kusa, or grass). Basically, 草 is the Japanese equivalent of lol

Also, in Chinese, thank you is often abbreviated as 3q, because when you say it out loud, it sounds like “thank you” (san kyu)

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I learned pretty quickly to avoid Mario Maker levels with “wwww” in the title.

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Hundreds of elden ring messages that just say “grass” or “time for grass” in random locations suddenly make sense now

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So would saying “touch grass” in Japanese be almost the same as saying “go to a comedy show?” :p

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In Thai, the number ‘5’ is pronounced like “haa”, so Thai people write 555 to signify laughter, similar to ‘lol’.

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Also, in Chinese, thank you is often abbreviated as 3q, because when you say it out loud, it sounds like “thank you” (san kyu)

This is in Japanese too.

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In Korean, “Hahaha” sounds more like “kh- kh- kh-”, represented by, “ㅋㅋㅋ”

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One of my favorites is in Japanese. Laughing is “w” or “www” or something. The word is “warau”. So then the ws, they look like grass, so people use the grass emoji, so then people write “kusa”.

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The number 5 is pronounced “ha” in Thai. So Thai people laugh 555 or 55555 if it was very funny.

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And in Brazil its kkkkkkkkkkk 🤣

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Assuming you mean texting style acronyms, yeah, we have them in German and I’d assume in other languages too.

Alongside the stuff borrowed from English 1:1, there’s stuff like bb for “Bis bald” (See you soon) or hdl for “hab dich lieb” (Love you)

I’d assume other languages do the same out of efficiency or laziness.

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French :

ftg : ferme ta gueule (shut it) ntm : nique ta mere (fuck your mom) slt : Salut (hello) cv : ça va ? (How are you?) ptn : putain (fuck) srx : sérieux (really?) jpp : j’en peux plus (I’m fed up)

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I love that you started with the insults mdr

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“Mdr” is a good one as well, good catch :) MDR = mort de rire = laughing to death

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A regular French thing I guess

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There’s also Cc (pronounced “cou cou”) used for greeting.

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Don’t forget rsvp!

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RSVP is more prevalent in the US (and the english speaking countries) than in France ;)

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Well TIL. Thanks!

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In Sesotho, “how are you?” is “ho joang?” which gets shortened to “hj”

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