A trendy phrase from Japan!

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Do you have a chance to communicate with some Japanese young people?
If yes, have you seen any new Internet Slang?

One word that is popular recently is "草".

草=くさ=grass

And it means the same as "LOL" in English... But why???

 

 

In Japanese, the word for "laugh" is 笑 (わらう/ warau).

And when Japanese young people write "lol" in a text they often use a small "w" and it is used to indicate the word "warau!"

 

kusa-warai-laugh

 

And when Japanese young people want to write that something is really really funny they write the word many times.. like this:

笑 笑 笑

or they use the alphabet "W" many times... like this:

wwwww

kusa-warai-laugh

 

So instead of writing "wwwwww" to mean... "lololol".

They just write one Kanji...

 

!!!