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In Dutch culture, among school children we had (have?) this funny thing where you can type in 707, which upside down reads "LOL", which in Dutch actually means "fun" (which funnily enough kind of corrolates with the internet slang abbreviation "lol"). Then if you calculate 707 + 707, so lol + lol, you get 1414, which reads as "hihi", which is an alternative, more giggly version "haha". Actually it kind of works in English too now that I think about it.

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Cool, in Czech "haha" (the regular one) and "hihi" (the more giggly/playful/naughty one) have the same relationship. I wonder what other languages use it.

In English this is, “hehe”

“Hi hi” would be interpreted as saying hello 2x in quick succession when you are excited to see someone.

We also sometimes use “kk” to mean, “okay, got it.” But emphasized or excited.

Actually, in English it is pronounced the same as in Czech and Polish: /hɛhɛ/ or /hihi/ (as far as I know). Both are written respectively as "hehe" and "hihi" and are valid expressions for denoting laughter in Polish (and as I assume, it works similarly in Czech).

Pronounced the same, spelled different. Got it.

Same in French

And also héhé if you're being mischievous or have just closed a good deal and hoho if you're Santa Claus.

In Finnish same. We actually have a separate verb for that kind of laughing: hihittää.

I took a few semesters of Dutch in college, and pretty much everyone else in the (admittedly quite small) classes either had Dutch ancestry or was an art history graduate student auditing so that they could learn to read primary sources about Dutch painters as part of their research. Early on in my first semester, we learned how to explain in Dutch why we decided to take Dutch, and I had the distinction of being the only one taking the class "voor de lol", which even today still makes me chuckle due to how similar it is to the common English meme phrasing.

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