LOL

In some languages with a non-Latin script, the abbreviation LOL itself is also often transliterated. See for example Arabic لول and Russian лол.[citation needed]

Pre-dating the Internet and phone texting by a century, the way to express laughter in morse code is "hi hi". The sound of this in morse ('di-di-di-dit di-dit, di-di-di-dit di-dit') is thought to represent chuckling.[41][42]

Most of these variants are usually found in lowercase.

• 555: the Thai variation of LOL. "5" in Thai is pronounced "ha", three of them being "hahaha".


• asg: Swedish abbreviation of the term asgarv, meaning intense laughter.


• g: Danish abbreviation of the word griner, which means "laughing" in Danish.[43]


• ha3: Malaysian variation of LOL. ha3 means pronouncing ha three times, "hahaha".


• jajajá: in Spanish, the letter "j" is pronounced /x/.[44]


• jejeje: in the Philippines is used to represent "hehehe". "j" in Filipino languages is pronounced as /h/, derived from the Spanish /x/. Its origins can be traced to SMS language. It is widely used in a Filipino youth subculture known as Jejemons.[45][46]


• kkkk: in Somali and Ethiopian languages spoken in the Horn of Africa, iterations of the letter "k", usually ranging between 2 and 8 k's, are used as a variation of LOL. These iterations are also used by Shona, Ndebele and other Zimbabwean languages speakers, with the longer variant being "kikiki" (emulating a laughing sound).


• mdr: Esperanto version, from the initials of "multe da ridoj", which translates to "lot of laughs" in English.


• mdr: French version, from the initials of "mort de rire" which roughly translated means "died of laughter", although many French people also use LOL instead as it is the most widely used on the internet.[47][48]


• mkm: in Afghanistan "mkm" (being an abbreviation of the phrase "ma khanda mikonom"). This is a Dari phrase that means "I am laughing".


• ptdr: French variant from pété de rire – literally meaning "broken with laughter"


• rs: in Brazil "rs" (being an abbreviation of "risos", the plural of "laugh") is often used in text based communications in situations where in English LOL would be used, repeating it ("rsrsrsrsrs") is often done to express longer laughter or laughing harder. Also popular is "kkk" (which can also be repeated indefinitely), due to the pronunciation of the letter k in Portuguese sounding similar to the ca in card, and therefore representing the laugh "cacacacaca" (also similar to the Hebrew version above).[49]


• wkwkwk: in Indonesian, "wkwkwk" is often used to express laughter. A new variant, "Akwoakwoak" or "Awkwoakwoak" is often used beside the original version. Both the original and the new variant are derived from the sound of Donald Duck laughing, something like "Wakakaka".


• חחח/ההה: Hebrew version of LOL. The letter ח is pronounced [/x/ /x/] and ה is pronounced [/h/ /h/]. Putting them together (usually three or more in a row) makes the word khakhakha or hahaha (since vowels in Hebrew are generally not written), which is in many languages regarded as the sound of laughter.


• ههههه: Arabic script repetition of the "هـ" character meaning "Hahahaha" or "Hehehehe". "هـ" is equivalent to the letter "H". The equivalents of the "a" or "e" short vowels are Arabic diacritics and are optional to write.


• ㅋㅋㅋ ("kkk" or "kekeke")[36] and ㅎㅎㅎ ("hhh") are usually used to indicate laughter in Korean. 'ㅋ', is a Korean Jamo consonant representing a "k" sound, and 'ㅎ' represents an "h" sound. Both "ㅋㅋㅋ" and "ㅎㅎㅎ" represent laughter which is not very loud. However, if a vowel symbol is written, louder laughter is implied: 하하 "haha" 호호, "hoho."[50]


• 哈哈哈/呵呵呵: in Chinese. Although 大笑 (da xiao; "big laugh") is used, a more widespread usage is "哈哈哈" (ha ha ha) or "呵呵呵" (he he) on internet forums. The phonetic rendering, "haha", is also common.


• (笑): in Japanese, the kanji for laugh (笑) is used in the same way as lol. It can be read as kakko warai (literally "parentheses laugh") or just wara. w is also used as an abbreviation, and it is common for multiple w to be chained together.[51] The resulting shape formed from multiple w leads to the usage of 草 (read as kusa), due to its resemblance to the shape of grass.


• ліл ("li'l", "leel") is a Ukrainian variant of LOL. Originally it was a parody for Mykola Azarov language, so called "azirivka", in which all "o"s are replaced with "i".

The word "lol" in other languages

• In Dutch, lol is a word (not an acronym) which, coincidentally, means "fun" ("lollig" means "funny")


• In Welsh, lol means "nonsense" or "ridiculous"  – e.g., if a person wanted to say "utter nonsense" in Welsh, they would say "lol wirion" or "rwtsh lol"[52]

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