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Q&A Writing "hahaha" versus describing the laugh

I don't see anything wrong in using hahaha as long as it's surrounded with a quote. I mean, I believe a character's style of laughter can be represented by a quoted word like "hahaha" or even "buha...

posted 5y ago by Taslim Oseni‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:55:28Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/45275
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Taslim Oseni‭ · 2019-12-08T11:55:28Z (over 4 years ago)
I don't see anything wrong in using _hahaha_ as long as it's surrounded with a quote. I mean, I believe a character's style of laughter can be represented by a quoted word like "hahaha" or even "buhahaha". The key pointer here is to surround it by quotes so that the reader knows what's going on.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-05-20T09:05:58Z (almost 5 years ago)
Original score: 0