laughing in English is strange to me

That's because those of us native speakers are in fact villains.

Imagining "kkkkkkkk" or "kakakakakak as laughing only makes me think of Muttley.

To me, "kakakaka" brings up the image of a cackling witch.

Do people in Brazil actually laugh in a way that sounds like kakakaka? Because (although of course there are many different kinds of laughs) in the English-speaking world, I would think most people's laughs do in fact sound like they have an 'h' sound (though more like hmm-hmm-hmm or heh-heh-heh, depending on whether the mouth is open—of course it's very difficult to transcribe onomatopoeic utterances). 'Kkkkkkkk' makes me think of a somewhat painful nose laugh, like a sleep apnea laugh.

Wait, I thought Brazilians laugh like 'huehuehuehueuhe', but now it's 'kakakakak'? Damn, I guess you've had an influx of Koreans with their 'kekekekek' and now your Portuguese has changed drastically.

I can relate as a Japanese speaker. It seems strange to me when English-speaking anime fans (weeaboos) replace “haha” with “ufufu” or “fufu,” not "ahaha." It's almost like sending “(chuckles)” or “(giggles)" in the middle of a conversation. "(Chuckles)" cannot be a response...

Kkkkkkkk sounds like a witch or like a bird and hahahaha just sounds like how people laugh to me

It is hysterical to me how my different students will read laughing sounds in English. Some really ham up the sound, some are villainous, others sound like theyre in a circus. Tbh, it is weird for a native speaker to read a laughing sound as well. I most do a Sheldon "ha *ha*" but anything really can come out

Guys we (brazilians) don't really laught with "kkkkk" unless is on social media kkkk

I totally get you!! I find many South Americans have this laugh. As an English speaker it's weird to me, lol. Even men will have this higher-pitched sort of tee hee hee vibe to their laugh. It seems a bit girly to me sometimes. Even French men do it. Maybe it's a romantic language thing. English is a romantic language as well but not as much as Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc.

Yea and your kkk is strange to me, but that's normal for you, isn't it?

Lol kakakaka remind me of one piece characters laughs, churururu When I was learning spanish and saw that it's jajajaja, I felt the same feeling you have, so weird lol In Arabic it's ههههههههه , which I think 100% match how we laugh

Whenever I see kkkkkkkk I immediately think of the KKK, an extremely evil and racist organization - so I guess the reverse feeling is mutual for me.

This is nothing, Thai people laugh like 55555

Don’t Koreans also use the kkkkkk for the laughter sound? I love other countries’ onomatopoeia

The kakaka is actually the weird one here...

Какака for a Russian speaker looks very odd. Cause, "kaka" may mean "doodoo"

You really don’t know any Brazilian that uses hahaha? I find that hard to believe, to be honest.

how the hell is kkkkkkkk any better than hahaha 😭

That sounds like throat clearing to me. In Turkey we just randomly type when we laugh. Like "sbsjsbsjjskdn"

"Kekeke" laugh reminds me of the cartoon character Popeye. He's the only character I heard laugh like that until Youtube was invented.

wow I thought brazil used hahahaha

It sounds like cacacacaca for us

Wait till see how Turkish people laugh on keyboard.

Nobody really goes either. How would you express an explosion or convulsion of air from the gut/diaphragm/lungs passing through no specified point of articulation in either the mouth, nose or both?

In Swedish we laugh in 4 different ways Haha is when something is funny Hehe is when something is a little bit funny or just a polite way of replying to something you didn't really find funny Höhö is when you make a pun or quoting something that people know well Hihi is more like giggling We have "hoho" but that's what Santa clause says Of course these can all overlap and also is not true for the older generation because they have their own way of typing. My older coworkers always end sentences with...

Yeah but kkkkkkkkkk sounds to me, as a native English speaker, the same sound as you would use for C with the word cat.

For those of you who didn’t know, do NOT write laughing or anything else for that matter as repeated Ks 3 or more times. This is the name of an extremist cult.

Your title would make a good first line for a poem.

It’s the onomatopoeia sound for laughter?? I know some languages use different words for laughter online, but not everyone does. Continuing to use the same onomatopoeia from offline language in online language doesn’t seem too strange to me. Beyond that, you’re ignoring English acronyms for laughter entirely. Where’s LOL, LMAO, ROFL, etc.? Those acronyms are used just as often, if not more often, than hahahaha.

Villain laugh in English would be "Muahahaha!" Example: Melon Lord Toph from Avatar [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSAZnh3X4mM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSAZnh3X4mM)

“Hahaha” is a normal laugh. “Mwahahaha” is a villainous laugh. “Kakaka” sounds like a witch. “Kkkk” is like saying “okay okay okay okay”

O jeito brasileiro é um pouco estranho na minha opinião mas eu acho melhor porque só tem q escrever uma letra

In my country, we just do... ))))))0)

I've heard of this before, and I think it's super cool. But I've never heard anyone say that the hahahahahaha we use as laugh onomatopoeia sounds villainous. Another thing I think is neat is that I think the kkkkkkk laugh onomatopoeia sounds more villainous. cultural things, I guess, very cool. Thank you for sharing.

Lol. That kind of sounds like a bird noise to me, and an evil laugh would be like "hehehehe". Differences like this are interesting