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Old 09-24-2006, 09:37 AM   #75
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Originally Posted by Jackal View Post
How do you figure this? "Heh" is a close approximation to a sound actually made by a kind of half chuckle. I hear people do it all the time. I suspect it's used far more genuinely than the LOL variations most of the time.
Really? Is that how most people interpret it online?

From literature and even subtitled adventure games, 'heh' for me is an approximation of the audible response when disinterested.
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This I don't get. The subject is understood, so why add the Neanderthal grammar killer just to make it longer?
It's an IRC command, which prepends your nickname to whatever your write after it. "/me sniggers" becomes "Jackal sniggers".
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