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wwwww? - 09-15-2008, 07:42 AM

I've seen the letter 'w' a lot on youtube comments by Japanese and in anime.(btw, does anime have a plural form?) I'm guessing it means something like 'lol,' but where did it originate from?
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09-15-2008, 09:20 AM

I was told it's an expression similar to 'lol'... But I can't shed any info on it's origins.
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09-15-2008, 10:10 AM

w for 笑い (わらい), meaning to laugh.

Just to clarify, 笑い in romaji is "warai", so the first letter "w" is used as an abbreviation.

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09-15-2008, 04:51 PM

Exactly the kind of answer I was looking for. Thank you very much.
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09-15-2008, 07:34 PM

The plural form of "anime" is "anime", btw.
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09-16-2008, 03:28 AM

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The plural form of "anime" is "anime", btw.
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09-16-2008, 04:20 AM

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The plural form of "anime" is "more anime", btw.
There, I fixed it.


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