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In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand?

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  • lol fuck, I knew someone would call me out on my rusty Japanese. Thank you!

    • In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand?

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  • ㅋㅋ which is “lol”

    Gamers may be familiar with "kkkkkk" because that's what you'd type on a keyboard to get ㅋㅋㅋㅋ :D

    Edit: Gawwwd don't listen to me today. This isn't exactly correct. And I struggle to explain transliteration. Basically, the character ㅋ corresponds to "k". I need sleep.

    • In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand?

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  • First things that comes to mind: Japanese for "to laugh" is 笑う "warau". The equivalent of "lol" then started as 笑. Over time it evolved into just the first Latin letter "wwwww". Which kind of looks like grass. And because Japanese people love word play, logically the next step was 草 "kusa" - which means "grass" and now also "lol".

    Anyway, sentences in languages that use logograms, such as Japanese, are generally shorter since they just use one character where languages that use Latin letters need several ("Want to hang out tonight after school?" - 授業後今晩遊ぼう？). So standard text message character limits are plenty to convey A LOT of stuff in Japanese. (EDIT: See comment below about the quality of that Japanese sentence lol)

    You can make sentences more compact if you want to: 今晩　遊？ is not a complete sentence but the essential parts that carry the meaning, "this evening" and "hang out", are there so if you're in a hurry that'll do.

    Going further back in time might be more interesting, the Japanese did some crazy shit with pagers: https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2018/02/spelling-words-using-numbers.html

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  • pet rocks

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  • Don't ask if you might not like the answer :/

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    ). The applicable drugs are dopamine reuptake inhibitors (such as Ritalin).

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  • No I fucking don't, THAT'S MY PROBLEM

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  • oh boy oh boy <3

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