Talk:חחח

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The current "pronunciation" is really something halfway between a pronunciation transcription and a transliteration of the word. (It is also possibly redundant to ח.) - -sche (discuss) 19:26, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

The usage note says "this is rarely if ever used", should we RFV it? Perhaps Ruakh can help us? Mglovesfun (talk) 11:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Isn't the usage note saying that LOL, or its transliteration, is rarely used, not that חחח is rarely used. SpinningSpark 12:47, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Re: Pronunciation/transcription, I really have no idea. Like English Internetisms, I'd guess that different people have different mental pronunciations (copypasta sounding like "copy-paste-a" or like "copy-pasta"? LOL like "L-O-L" or like "lawl"?), but if there is one standard pronunciation, I don't know it. Personally I'd always pronounced it mentally as /χaχaχa/, but he.wikt lemmatizes it as חְחְ, which implies it should be something like /χχ/ (maybe /χ̣ː/?) or /χəχ/.

Re: usage-note/RFV: Spinningspark is correct. I've removed the usage note, since it would be like having a usage note at dog saying that people don't use the word canine very often. I would say that חחח is in "clearly widespread use"; but if it actually came to RFV, it might be hard to cite, because it's such an Internetism, so it doesn't tend to show up in durably archived sources. (I've added a news-article cite to show what a durably-archived cite might look like, but that specific article is not durably archived SFAICT.)

—Ruakh_TALK 16:12, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

I've detagged the entry. - -sche (discuss) 21:46, 20 October 2012 (UTC)