• 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    French :

    ftg : ferme ta gueule (shut it) ntm : nique ta mere (fuck your mom) slt : Salut (hello) cv : ça va ? (How are you?) ptn : putain (fuck) srx : sérieux (really?) jpp : j’en peux plus (I’m fed up)

  • Regalia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Assuming you mean texting style acronyms, yeah, we have them in German and I’d assume in other languages too.

    Alongside the stuff borrowed from English 1:1, there’s stuff like bb for “Bis bald” (See you soon) or hdl for “hab dich lieb” (Love you)

    I’d assume other languages do the same out of efficiency or laziness.

  • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Not necessarily an acronym, but here’s a fun one for Japanese: Laughing in Japanese is warau, which gets shortened when typing to just w. If you want to laugh a lot, you would type wwww. That ends up looking like a field of grass, so that in turn gets shortened into 草 (kusa, or grass). Basically, 草 is the Japanese equivalent of lol

    Also, in Chinese, thank you is often abbreviated as 3q, because when you say it out loud, it sounds like “thank you” (san kyu)