For example, in English, you might type something like:

r u going out 2nite?

Instead of:

Are you going out tonight?

How does that sort of thing work when texting in a logographic language? Is it just emoji city, or can they mix and match characters to make things more compact?

And similarly, is there a formal journalistic shorthand system that gets used when jotting down comments in real-time, e.g. in China, Korea or Japan?

Thank you kindly!

  • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
    81·
    17 hours ago

    ㅋㅋ which is “lol”

    Gamers may be familiar with “kkkkkk” because that’s what you’d type on a keyboard to get ㅋㅋㅋㅋ :D

    Edit: Gawwwd don’t listen to me today. This isn’t exactly correct. And I struggle to explain transliteration. Basically, the character ㅋ corresponds to “k”. I need sleep.