How do you press F to pay respects in Japanese or whatever the equivalent is?
I found a couple of threads about online Japanese slang like here or adjacent to it like here. However, all threads related to Japanese Internet slang seem to be closed due to age.
What slang do you know or have encountered online?
The bit I know best is how lol has evolved in Japanese. People used to write (笑) わらい (laugh) to signify they were laughing (and some people still do), but some changed to just the first letter, w I suppose many Japanese speakers use romaji keyboards?. People add more w’s, like wwwww, for things they find really funny. wwwww looks a lot like grass, and so nowadays some people write 草くさ(grass) for lol.
One thing I’ve noticed is that these kinds of internet slang expressions tend to be culture (or at least language) dependent, with many of them not really having equivalents in other languages, at least not direct ones.
Some Japanese ones I’ve noticed are spamming 8s at the end of a video (I used to know the explanation but I forget, I think one of the readings of 8 in Japanese sounds like a word for “end”), and てえてえ which means like “precious” (especially used for shipping characters or vtubers; IIRC it comes from an extreme slurring of 尊い). There’s also a trend of pronouncing もらった as もろった for some reason.
This is because the onomatopoeia for clapping in Japanese is パチパチ, and 8 in Japanese is はち. While not exactly the same sound, people decided it was close enough and so use 8’s as a short form for clapping (hence why you noticed it at the ends of videos).
I wonder if if I could just says 乙+です when leaving for the day or if someone would notice lol. I’m going to try 乙 next time a Japanese person tells me online that they’ve finished a task. I know a guy writing his thesis… 草草草 (but with ゴゴゴゴゴ as the furigana).
People do still use (笑) to indicate laughter, like we use lol or haha. My boyfriend and I use it all the time on LINE. I’ve never seen him use www with me or anyone else, though I have seen it before on videos and stuff.
You can also say that there’s no grass if something wasn’t funny
A few others I remember:
乙 (おつ）, slang for お疲れ (this was mentioned already)
うp（うぷ）, upload
うp主（うぷぬし）, uploader
88888888… (ぱちぱちぱち・・・）applause. 77777… means something wasn’t quite worthy of applause, 9999999… is more than 888888…
Also, not net speak but rather gaming terminology: I remember I enjoyed learning that リス地 （りすち）means (re)spawn point, since you can’t actually find it in Jisho or the like
No worries! I just wanted to make sure/was wondering if it’s a generational thing, ha. We’re both 30, so I though maybe “kids these days” primarily use www XD
Which essentially means “sorry, you don’t know me, but…”. Literally, the FF stands for フォローした／フォローされた, or “Follower/Followed (by the original poster)”. So it’s saying “Excuse me, I come from outside your followed/followers”. It’s just considered polite to excuse yourself for interacting with someone you have no connection, so you will see it at the start of many tweets.
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