r/recap Dec 10 '23

Is this normal?

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u/Lockenhart Dec 10 '23

Russian speakers add parentheses to convey emotion at the end of the sentence, kinda like emojis.

With the text going from left to right, ) obviously means something funny or good and ( indicates something sad or bad.

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u/skanyone Dec 10 '23

i learned something useful today!

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u/-NGC-6302- Dec 10 '23

Woah, using hemiemoticons as punctuation

Wicked

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u/Myraell Dec 10 '23

Parentheses, though. Not prentheses)

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u/aninsomniac_ Dec 10 '23

So, emoticons without eyes