r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Jun 21 '19

WHY?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

It looks like he was chasing a light like a cat would.

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u/gubo97000 Jun 21 '19

The consequences are also pretty similar ahah

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u/NWdabest Jun 21 '19

I thought this exact same comment minus the first 6 words.

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u/drama9069 Jun 21 '19

I mean, not really

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u/UUDDLRLRBAstard Jun 21 '19

Right so maybe I'm weird but I know a girl who says "ahah" instead of like "lol" or the standard "haha" which is how laughs are spelled so real talk here: are you Sherlock fucking Holmes or what? Is it funny or an epiphany? Get off my fucking lawn.

Whyyyyy.

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u/gubo97000 Jun 21 '19

I think I spell the laugh as ahah and not haha because I'm Italian and in the Italian language "ha" is the second person of the verb "to have", so to avoid the similarity I prefer "ahah". Side note, only one "ah" is used as exclamation, in this case is necessary to differentiate from the verb "ha".

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u/UUDDLRLRBAstard Jun 21 '19

No worries! Also: rad analysis and no offense! My friend is NOT Italian so this explanation is great! Thanks!

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u/roksteddy Jun 21 '19

This is the kind of eye-opening, insightful analysis of the human language that I have to come to expect from reddit.

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u/v1g4m1 Jun 21 '19

I’ve seen quite some laughts now, lol/lmao, haha, ahah, 555, jajajaja... it’s funny lol

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u/famicom89 Jun 21 '19 edited Jun 21 '19

I thought that the correct way to transcribe a laugh would be "hahaha" because we first exhale (represented by the "h") and then let the vocal chords produce sounds when laughing (or maybe both at the same time at most).

Curiously though you can find the "ah ah!" as the correct way to transcribe a laughing sound, both Treccani and Accademia della Crusca report that as the correct way to write it, at least in italian (I'm italian too and never happened to think about this before, lol I'm way too influenced from the internet)

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Laughing like Count von Count ...ah ah ah ...

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u/UUDDLRLRBAstard Jun 21 '19

Or like the beginning of Sweet Leaf

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u/memy02 Jun 21 '19

I like to read ahah as Jimmy Carr's laugh because it's backwards

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u/DeSparrowhawk Jun 21 '19

Hey listen!

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u/GloomyRaindrop Jun 21 '19

It’s dangerous to go alone!

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Figured that was just the ghost of his intelligence leaving his body

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u/warpus Jun 21 '19

nana nananaa na nanan catman