So saying “touch grass” in Japanese is almost the same as saying “go to a comedy show?” :p
Comment on Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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)
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Hundreds of elden ring messages that just say “grass” or “time for grass” in random locations suddenly make sense now
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
In Thai, the number ‘5’ is pronounced like “haa”, so Thai people write 555 to signify laughter, similar to ‘lol’.
pycorax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
eightpix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In Korean, “Hahaha” sounds more like “kh- kh- kh-”, represented by, “ㅋㅋㅋ”
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I learned pretty quickly to avoid Mario Maker levels with “wwww” in the title.