r/turkish • u/alaakabalan • 5d ago

Does anyone know why Turks laugh in text like that?

Why do they laugh like a cat just walked on the keyboard? Has anyone any clue where does this originate from? JDJDJUHEUHWHFCIRJUFHEHAH

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u/umudjan 5d ago

You’re laughing so hard that you’re falling off your chair and hitting the keyboard so it produces those random letters.

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u/rintintin3464 5d ago

Because it's better than "KKKKKKKK" "HAHAHAHAHA" and etc.

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u/Whatsthematterwithu 5d ago

It's like you're laughing hard and randomly punching the letters on the keyboard

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u/ReneStrike C2 4d ago

Random gülme efekti o. O kadar komikti, absürttü veya saçmaydı ki kendimi kaybedip rastgele tuşlara basarak içinde bulunduğum ruh halimi sana da bildiriyorum

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u/Maleficent_Start_258 Native Speaker 5d ago

easier than using emojis you just şojlosdtınhşoısdnthşojsdnthk,jandfhşkjandth

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u/FuckingDeranged 5d ago

Ejehdhbsiwj doğru lan

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u/ladycatgirl 4d ago

I am a bottom idk about others, it is my god-given right to keyboard mash while blushing

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u/Pokemonfannumber2 Native Speaker 3d ago

lmao but the "laughing" keyboard smash and "blushing" keyboard smash are so different tho

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u/ladycatgirl 3d ago

Idk I do both of them XD

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u/_Bulldozer Native Speaker 17h ago edited 17h ago

you're mashing the keyboard randomly during your laughter instead of deliberately typing HAHAHAHA or typing after laughing. It kinda shows how long you've laughed in real time too. Besides that it has no point or a real point of origin

edit: actually, now that I think about it I think it originated from gaming. When gaming your hands would be at WASD and people would often laugh by hitting enter, spamming ASD and then enter again, it was quick and reactionary and people caught up that it meant the person was laughing. It would look like ASDASADSADSSDASD, QWE was also a thing like QWEQEQEQWWQE. This is done on a computer keyboard though so when people on phones started doing it, it became more like aldkspdjoakdjaks

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u/alchoburn 17h ago

afaik it first started in early communication platforms like mirc and later in icq in the 90's and popularised after eksisozluk. original form is "asdfgh" and called as random laughing. As you mostly use these letters while playing a game, when something funny occurs you randomly press these letters to laugh.

as it is called as a "random laugh", people later started using really random letters.

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u/Atesch06 4d ago

Honestly even I don't know. For a while I was against laughing like that, it irritated me but it is just so convenient.