Japan Laughs in Grass. France Dies Laughing.

America slipped in the world's group chat, and every country laughed in its own code. Japan: wwwww — w from 笑う (warau, to laugh); a row of w looks like grass, so Japanese also laughs with 草 (grass) South Korea: ㅋㅋㅋ — ㅋ is the k consonant, read like a cackle Brazil: kkkkkkkk — k is read 'kah' in Brazilian Portuguese Italy: ahahah — Italian has no breathy 'h' sound, so the laugh starts on the vowel Spain: jajaja — j is read like h in Spanish France: mdr — mort de rire, 'dying of laughter' Germany: hahaha — the plain laugh — the one the USA can read USA: lol — laughing out loud, famously typed with a straight face How does YOUR country laugh in a text? 👇 Sources: restofworld.org (2023, how people laugh online), bdae.com (how laughter is written worldwide), Duolingo, openl.io.