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Is it different in all languages? Like English hahahaha, Spanish Jajajaja. What about French and German etc?? Please help me. I need to know!! 🙁

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In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, it's Yo Yo Yo

In the Artic Circle, it's Brrr Brrr Brr

At Oxford, it's hm hm hm

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Is it different in all languages? Like English hahahaha, Spanish Jajajaja. What about French and German etc?? Please help me. I need to know!! 🙁
So funny you mention this. Just the other day, a Mexican customer of ours wrote "ja ja ja ja" in an email to us and one of my coworkers was all puzzled by it, asking what's up with "Ja Ja Ja" (pronouncing it gringo-style like it is spelled)

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Originally posted by coquette
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, it's Yo Yo Yo

In the Artic Circle, it's Brrr Brrr Brr

At Oxford, it's hm hm hm
Yeah, on the city streets of ATL, it's yo yo yo, also.

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Originally posted by sumydid
So funny you mention this. Just the other day, a Mexican customer of ours wrote "ja ja ja ja" in an email to us and one of my coworkers was all puzzled by it, asking what's up with "Ja Ja Ja" (pronouncing it gringo-style like it is spelled)
Ja is yes in German.

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Ja is yes in German.
The only German I ever learned was

"I know nothing! NNNNOTHING!!"

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis

Is it different in all languages? Like English hahahaha, Spanish Jajajaja. What about French and German etc?? Please help me. I need to know!! 🙁
It is "哈哈" in Chinese. (pronunciation is 'haha' in Mandarin and Cantonese). -WordReference (MingRaymond, SR Member)

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Turkish:

hahaha (very typical laughter, it's usually triple 'ha', not double)
ha... ha... ha... (sarcastic)
hihihi (giggling)

(not original). Wonder if you could do variations like this in other languages?

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Originally posted by Kewpie
Turkish:

hahaha (very typical laughter, it's usually triple 'ha', not double)
ha... ha... ha... (sarcastic)
hihihi (giggling)

(not original). Wonder if you could do variations like this in other languages?
In amateur radio, laughter is noted in morse code as .... .. (hi, done twice, so .... .. .... .., so that got added to ham talk, a funny is said with voice, hi hi.

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Hungarian:

hahaha (classical; the length of it depends on how funny we find the thing we are laughing about)
ha... ha... ha... (sarcastic, usually followed by "Nagyon vicces!" meaning "Very funny!" or "Szólj, ha nevetni kell!" meaning "Tell me when I have to laugh!"😉
hihihi (giggle)

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Originally posted by sonhouse
In amateur radio, laughter is noted in morse code as .... .. (hi, done twice, so .... .. .... .., so that got added to ham talk, a funny is said with voice, hi hi.
How about "Bug Off" in ham talk?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
How about "Bug Off" in ham talk?

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Look it up for yourself in a Morse Code manual.

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Originally posted by sumydid
The only German I ever learned was

"I know nothing! NNNNOTHING!!"
How 'bout, "Hoooogan".

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'Hi, Bien ?' is quite usual in French for 'how are you ?'.. as in, 'bien ou quoi ?' which is the same as 'ca va bien ?'... the most usual greeting in Paris, and pretty much all over France now, is the simple, 'Wesh ?!'...it means the same as above but is proper street slang.

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Originally posted by RevRSleeker
'Hi, Bien ?' is quite usual in French for 'how are you ?'.. as in, 'bien ou quoi ?' which is the same as 'ca va bien ?'... the most usual greeting in Paris, and pretty much all over France now, is the simple, 'Wesh ?!'...it means the same as above but is proper street slang.
In the "other" French (Quebec) they use the term Salut which is interchangable for Hi or Bye.

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