I've got a question about internet lingo for you. How likely are Japanese people to understand online game shorthand, or online emoticons typed on a western keyboard?
I play a lot of Japanese guys at night in various Street Fighter games. After a match I thought was cool I'll type "gg :D" but I'm wondering if that even makes sense to them. Is that a universal thing? I know in Warcraft and Starcraft a couple things like "gl hf gg wp" are all standard across various languages and countries but I have no idea with anything else.
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