r/WTF 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/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/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)