As you may know much of my communication at work is over IM (for the old people this is Instant Messenger...its realtime chating). Anyway, there are many short cuts that are used when talking to one another for instance... when you want to say something is funny you type "lol" which stands for Laughing Out Loud or you type "Hahahahaha" which is like laughter...easy right?
Well, the first week I was here I was a little confused by a message or 2 that I recieved from a local it was "jajajajajaja" now my reading that I thought it was weird, but in the context it would have be laughter. A few days later I had an apiphiny...In spanish the "j" is pronounced like our "h", so for the spanish speaking community "jajajajaja" makes perfect sense as laughter.
I thought that was a neat little tid bit.
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