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Did you know ? Eastern europeans end words (without space) with singles characters "(" and ")" to indicate full smileys. Only themselves understand each others and they dont tell anyone about it)))


From my old WoW-playing days, I was given to understand that : was awkward to reach on cyrillic keyboards, so many of the russians skipped it and just used ) or even %) sometimes (which sort of looks like eyes and a nose if you squint)


Why eastern europeans in particular? Is it somehow related to slavic languages? Now I'm curious


It's the Russian keyboard layout that makes ":" difficult to type.

In Poland we just use the US keyboard layout so that's not a problem. I assume it's similar for other non-cyrillic slavic languages.


Weird, I've seen poles do that


I'm guessing they are overgeneralizing since I'm a Bulgarian and I haven't really seen anyone do that.


I also thought it was an Eastern European thing. Would be nice to see a map of prevalence of this trend.


Yeah sorry I meant far-eastern europeans




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