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Re: Netspeak terms? (was: Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe)
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Date: 
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:44:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:


Rick Clark wrote:

My number one pet peeve: "Hehe" is not a word! If you're giggling, it's
spelled "hee hee," and if chuckling, it's "heh heh."

Hmmm, (too many "m"s?;-)  I always took "hehe" to be a sort of netspeak for a
low, chuckle under the breath.  "Hee hee" looks *way* too undignified and I'd
never do it, much less spell it that way.  "Heh heh" looks to me like
a pervert
ogling, which I'd also never use.

From someone's sig on another site: "on the internet, everyone knows you're
a balding pervert"(1)

Again, netspeak to the rescue--
"lol" and all
of its variations.

YMMV,
John

1 - which of course is a takeoff on "on the internet, no one knows you're a ..."



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  Netspeak terms? (was: Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe)
 
(...) Hmmm, (too many "m"s?;-) I always took "hehe" to be a sort of netspeak for a low, chuckle under the breath. "Hee hee" looks *way* too undignified and I'd never do it, much less spell it that way. "Heh heh" looks to me like a pervert ogling, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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