Quote from: larry on March 27, 2011, 03:20:20 AM

This is the meaning of prolonging tones.When you see a beautiful girl,you will make such a sigh"Wow~~". When you are hurt,you will say "Ouch~~".
Like this,HAha~~,do you understand?

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Thank you~~ Cheesy

Aah OK

In Australia, and probably the US, it's more common to add more letters - like Wooooooowww and Hahahahaha *snort* hahaaaaaaaa.

(In rare cases, unusual sounds or physical events are put in asterisks like the *snort* above.)

Or, perhaps more in line with your meaning, we'll append ! to words, such as Ouch!!! (The more ! the more you mean it, with limits of course.)

Capital letters are also used to imply that we're shouting or at least being loud. FAAAAAAArk.

So if I was saying thank you, I'd go Thank You!! - but I wouldn't say THANK YOU because that might sound like I was being rude.

Cheers, Mike.

(Emoticons are pretty standard ;-) )

Edit - since this forum is so international it'll be interesting to see how English changes over time