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Yes, they do.

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YTD.

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IMO in German = mMn (meiner Meinung nach)

But for the most part we use the English ones

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zB = zum Beispiel = for example

usw = und so weiter = and so forth

etc = etcetera = and so forth

we love shortings too

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Et cetera is latin and “etc” is commonly used in English and quite a few other languages as well.

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of course; all of these are very much pre-Internet ones and don’t correspond to any Internet slang in English

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hdgdl

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Isn’t that what you do with Bitcoin?

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smh = iwie (irgendwie)

How r u = wg (wie geht’s)

somebody = jmd (jemand)

Shut up = hdf (Halt die Fresse)

probs = wsl (wahrscheinlich)

idk = kp (kein Plan)

kp could also be “kein Problem” (no problem) which is why I personally prefer idk / np over kp / kp

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smh means shaking my head though

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Lol, I always used it for “somehow” :')

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I’m using none of these. But what i use almost all the time : possibly = evtl (eventuell) maybe = vllt (vielleicht) kindest regards = LG (Liebe Grüße) e.g. /for example = zB (z.B.: / zum Beispiel) (i omit the dots and colons)

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True, I use those too ^^

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One of my favorites is in Japanese. Laughing is “w” or “www” or something. The word is “warau”. So then the ws, they look like grass, so people use the grass emoji, so then people write “kusa”.

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And in Brazil its kkkkkkkkkkk 🤣

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The number 5 is pronounced “ha” in Thai. So Thai people laugh 555 or 55555 if it was very funny.

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In Portuguese we don’t use many acronyms, but we have shorter versions of words with the vowels removed or things like that. When people tried to use acronyms we ended up with “fds” which some people read as weekend, others read as “fuck it”. The only other acronyms I can think of right now are all for offenses such as fdp (son of a bitch) and cdf (“ass of iron”, very old term for calling someone a nerd).

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The only Hindi acronyms that I know of are offensive. There’s mc, which stands for madarchod (motherfucker), and bc, which stands for behenchod (sister fucker).

There’s also the rarely used AMJ, Hindi equivalent of TIL, used on the Hindi version of r/todayilearnt (r/aajmainejana).

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