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Helena ([personal profile] orchidfire) wrote in [community profile] linguaphiles2009-05-21 11:49 pm
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Purposeful misspellings

In English, people can often purposefully misspell words, usually for a cutesy effect (as in cat macros - "I can haz cheezburger?" or "ai wubs yu!") or some other effect, usually humorous. Does this effect exist in other languages? How about those that don't follow a Roman alphabet system; what are the equivalents?
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[personal profile] adlina 2009-05-22 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
like if I say this?
悪くないもんね!
when trying to get away with sth

I´ve always thought it´s something that´s got to do with the spoken language - like slangs or something. Now i know....