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I'm currently viewing a bunch of tweets about Typhoon Jebi in Kansai, and I'm seeing a lot of people writing 気を[っ]{L}けて specifically with a small っ.

  • Is this just some type of stylization? If so, what kind (internet; young people slang; danger emphasis; etc.)?
  • Or is this the case of some special usage like I talk about in this question about 障がい者?
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  • Could you give us some links to these tweets? – Breton Loïc Sep 04 '18 at 22:23
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    Is this not a typo? It surely seems to me like it's a typo, the kind where the small and normal-size つ don't look very different in size and the user inadvertently chose the wrong one... – psosuna Sep 05 '18 at 00:09
  • Upon reinspecting them in different browsers, it looks like it may just be a font rendering issue. If anyone can answer confirming that there is no such stylization or special usage, I'll close this. – istrasci Sep 05 '18 at 00:13
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    There is such a stylization method (see this, this and this), but it's something that caught on a decade ago... – naruto Sep 05 '18 at 02:49
  • @naruto, can you elaborate on that comment in an answer? – istrasci Sep 05 '18 at 19:20
  • @istrasci Since this is not the case of ギャル文字, I think you can simply close this. – naruto Sep 06 '18 at 23:13

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