• orcrist@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    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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      4 months ago

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