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From: Piers Beckley <

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Subject: UKNM: Welcome to the world of the emoticon (was grr! grr!)

Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:04:17 +0100

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of

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> Subject: Re: UKNM: Bad search engines godado.co.uk

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> OK, it was all a misjudged joke. I thought the site wanted to

> be talked

> about.


[snip]


> So, I'm sorry and won't let my sense of humour tempt me into illjudged

> attempts to continue provocative discussions to get someone

> else attention

> again.


Don't feel bad, it's something that happens to all of us at one time or

another. Next time, why not utilise this handy guide to emoticons!


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Unlike a conversation, it's sometimes very difficult to tell whether someone

is being sarcastic or attempting to be funny in an email. This can lead to

people becoming upset and wanting to hit you.

As emails tend to be dashed off rather than written carefully (like a

letter) it's often quite useful to add a bit of context.


Thus the smiley, or emoticon was born. Simply append one when the context

isn't clear. I tend to be quite liberal with them. :)


Here's a basic list. You can find more (if you want to) at

http://members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.htm


:-) Your basic smiley. This smiley is used to inflect a sarcastic or joking

statement since we can't hear voice inflection over e-mail.


;-) Winky smiley. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark. More

of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smiley.


:-( Frowning smiley. User did not like that last statement or is upset or

depressed about something.


:-| Indifferent smiley. Better than a :-( but not quite as good as a :-).


:-P nyahhhh!


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Piers "Not that I've seen this before or anything" Beckley


(reduce, re-use, recycle)



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