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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by lifthrasiir on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:10PM (#26668450)
There is a similar thing in Korean Hangul (also unicased) where you put full stop between each letter: "알겠습니다." ("I see.") vs. "알.겠.습.니.다." I believe it is an independent invention.
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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by thaumasiotes on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:32AM (#26669221)
In Chinese you use exclamation points:

我！太！满！足！了！

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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by banachtarski on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:39PM (#26668569)
소.데.스.네. ^^
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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by lifthrasiir on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:46PM (#26668597)
That kind [1] of language-script mismatches mainly for humorous purposes actually exists in Korean and is considered a kind of 한본어 (a portmanteau of 한국어 Korean language and 일본어 Japanese language).

[1] In this case, Japanese そうですね "I see" written in Hangul.

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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by tasogare on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:36AM (#26669943)
Chinese phonology is a bit restrictive but I have great fun written short messages in other languages (Japanese, French, English) with Chinese characters. Of course the number of friends I can do that why is very limited, which in a way makes it is even nicer.
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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by banachtarski on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:27PM (#26677663)
Yea, I do it all the time in Korean when joking about something with friends. 친구들이랑 그렇게 얘기해요
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