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What is the Esperanto word for lololololol?

In Esperanto, the word for lol is mdr (multe da ridoj).

In many languages, there is also an extended form of internet slang for expressing laughter, with a repeating part denoting its intensity, analogous to the English lolololol, where one may add another ~ol and it would still be a word. Here are some examples:

  • In Chinese, it is 23333333 or hhhhhhhh
  • In Japanese, it is wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
  • In Korean, it is ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Since in esperanto, one may use multiple of the same pre/affixes to denote more intensity (finfine, mulmulte), it seems one reasonable candidate to express a more intense laughter would be mmmmmmmmmmmmdr.

However, a quick google search revealed no Esperanto sources uses this word, which prompted me to ask this question. What‘s the word for lololololol? Or is there one?

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    Hahahaha or hehehehe are certain to be understood, but hhhhhhh is possible, and your own suggestion of mmmmdr seems okay to me.
    – Andrew Woods
    May 14, 2018 at 12:52

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Is there a word for extended form of “lol” (“lolololol…”)?

No.

Is there one specific word for an extended form of "lol"? I am not aware of one. Is it "lolol", "lololol", "lolololol" or something else?

If you feel the need to extend something, go with "haha" which you can extend with however many ha's as you want.

Anything other than a modification of "mdr" or "haha" is not very likely to be understood by a general audience.

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  • Can one do "hahahahahaha" in Esperanto?
    – Zuoanqh
    May 14, 2018 at 9:36
  • Yes, one can certainly do that in Esperanto.
    – Raúl
    May 14, 2018 at 9:38
  • @Zuoanqh: Ne, vi ne povas... hahahaha! ;-)
    – Vidamuzo
    May 14, 2018 at 11:32
  • I'm picking this answer because this is the most straight-forward and well explained. Thanks also to @Hugo for his insight.
    – Zuoanqh
    May 24, 2018 at 0:31
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In French, mdr is also an equivalent to lol (it stands for mort de rire, meaning "dead of laughter"), and a lot of time, people use mdrrrr (with more or fewer r's), so maybe it could also be used that way in Esperanto?

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    Bam! That's a precedent right there, already using the same expression in French. Mojose!
    – Vidamuzo
    May 14, 2018 at 15:43
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Is there a word for extended form of “lol” (“lolololol…”)?

No.

Esperanto isn't for replacing every English word ever invented. It's for expressing ideas. What is the idea expressed by "lololololol" (expressed in real words)? Write that in Esperanto. There's your answer to "What is the Esperanto word for lololololol?"

Since it's not clear to me what idea you're trying to express with "lololololol" (different from "mi ridas" or "tio estas amuza"), I'll leave this last step as an exercise for the asker.

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    In many languages, there is also an extended form of internet slang for expressing laughter, with a repeating part denoting its intensity
    – Zuoanqh
    May 14, 2018 at 8:49
  • I don't think that clarifies the matter.
    – Tomaso Alexander
    May 14, 2018 at 9:15
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    "LOL" means different things to different people. There was a time, for example, when it was only used in reaction to something someone else said. Now it seems to mean "I think I'm funny" or "please don't be angry". And yes, I understand that the more o's and l's on the end, the more "exaggerated" it is. My point is that people should focus on expressing themselves clearly in Esperanto. What are you trying to say? How do you say it clearly? Questions of the form "What is the Esperanto word for X" are almost always ill-formed because there's no reason to assume that X is expressed by 1 word.
    – Tomaso Alexander
    May 14, 2018 at 9:42
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    To me this is not about how to express something, but how to visually emphasize something, which you could do like THIS, like this or like thiiisss. It so happens that people use lololol in English and mdrrrr in French for emphasis, and they are perfectly understood by others. It works in any language and it's used regularly in chats and text messaging, where those shortcuts may well come in handy. I'm not saying it's fine to write like that in formal writing.
    – Vidamuzo
    May 16, 2018 at 17:22
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    @Vidamuzo I think you get what my point is. I would like to add that, words are not defined by dictionaries, but by how they are used -- and dictionaries explain that. One good example is how the "hello" at the beginning of a phone call -- it is not sufficient to translate what it meant: In no language, afaik, one starts a phone call with "are you there and do you hear me?". They all have short, easy words for this purpose. That's what this question is asking. It's completely fine to say "Nah we don't have a word for it". But whether such a word should exist is out of scope.
    – Zuoanqh
    May 24, 2018 at 0:40
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Short answer: LOL is an English slang abbreviation, thus you can't really translate it.

Long answer: According to Merriam-Webster and Collins dictionaries LOL is an English abbreviation for laugh/laughing out loud. Oxford Dictionaries goes a bit further giving examples of its informal use as an exclamation (LOL!) and a verb (I literally LOL'd when the updates popped up, I was LOLing at the teeny tiny little sign). Wikipedia defines it as an internet slang acronym, which is a kind of abbreviation. In Esperanto you can either use it unchanged (which many do in other non-English languages) or you could make an abbreviation from the translation of its idea: multe da ridoj or morta de rido = mdr (in Vikipedio it appears with uppercase: MDR).

I don't think there are rules for denoting the intensity of mdr like you do in English with LOL. I think you can use it as you like, as long as others understand it. :-)))

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