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I’m American who grew up in Florida with a mother who grew up in Puerto Rico, with tons of Spanish exposure, and I still read that as “yah yah yah yah yah”
Brazilians write kkkkkkkk which confused me a lot
I think Thailand is 55555
Koreans use ㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎ (hhhhh) and ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (kkkkk). They also put ~~~~~ everywhere, apparently that makes things less serious.
In Japan they’ll use either 笑笑笑 or wwww. Sometimes you see ハハハ which is a transliteration of hahaha.
Or there is the classic 草
The Spanish use jajajajaja afaik
As a German, this always confuses me
jajajajaja angrily nods head
j is spoken similar to an h in Spanish. Juan is basically almost Huan.
I’m American who grew up in Florida with a mother who grew up in Puerto Rico, with tons of Spanish exposure, and I still read that as “yah yah yah yah yah”
It’s due to how the letter is spelled in brazilian portuguese, it more of a ‘kah’ sound, like a cackle.
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