I worked with a Russian software engineering team for many years and they would add parentheses to the end of the sentence as a smiling or laughing emoji. The more parentheses, the more they are laughing/joking. This was a crucial cultural thing to understand, because their very literal and direct style of communication could otherwise be taken quite the wrong way. Examples:
“This code is really terrible)”
“I think I wrote it))”
“No, it was Sergey. He’s such a bad programmer)))))”
My only regret from working with that amazing team was not understanding the parenthesis thing sooner. For years we all assumed they were typos and none of us ever asked)))).
