The official language thread

I’m in bed too, I don’t want to sleep. I’m afraid to dream something that I must tell you after!

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I just got home from Deadpool II. Pretty darn decent flick. :slight_smile:

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Was about to see that, but we decided on Solo instead… :smiley:

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Have to hold on out for that until next week. Probably have to pass on Deadpool 2 for now.

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So…
Many…
Previews.

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Yes, I would say that they’re interchangeable. The Oxford Dictionary lists them as synonyms of one another.

I hear ‘fortunately’ as being a bit more formal, but that’s the only subtle difference I can think of.

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Latinate forms often are. Luck/Glück/geluk is obviously the Germanic form, and fortunat/fortunatus the Latinate one. :wink:

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How do you laugh in English if you have to write it down?

Ha Ha, He He, Hi Hi, Hu Hu, Ho Ho Ho, …?

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What a weird question, haven´t you seen that like a thousand times on here?

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And half of those times from me, probably :wink:

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I’ve read all of the examples above. Thus my question.

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The other half knows who she is.

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Mmwwhaaahahaha

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@milanfahrnholz: See, another variant. :wink:

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So why shouldn´t the answer to your question be “all of the above?”

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Could be a valid answer. But like in German there is maybe an official variant?

According to the Duden in German we have “Haha”:

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Well…that was unexpected.

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Seems “ha ha” and “he he” are valid (both written without a hyphen and in lower case):

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ha_ha

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Seems to be the most frequently used, also.

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That’s an evil laugh :smiling_imp:

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