emoticons

Maybe you send me a nice email saying that it really moved you and I get paid, what, in emoticons?

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Maybe you send me a nice email saying that it really moved you and I get paid, what, in emoticons?

Archive 2009-10-01

I admit that I have used and occasionally abused the semicolon in emoticons – always in a highly informal context – but have yet to decide if that constitutes a lapse of some sort.

Semicolons reinvented

I admit that I have used and occasionally abused the semicolon in emoticons – always in a highly informal context – but have yet to decide if that constitutes a lapse of some sort.

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Another interesting function of emoticons is misdirection.

On Emoticons

Another interesting function of emoticons is misdirection.

Archive 2005-08-01

Here's a gallery of even older emoticons from the 1970s-era PLATO system:

Boing Boing: September 8, 2002 - September 14, 2002 Archives

Recently I discovered that my BlackBerry has 30 "emoticons" - icons designed to express emotion - preloaded for texting.

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EDIT: I believe what I am on about is the 'emoticons' - Have SE removed them?

Esato discussion forum

EDIT: I believe what I am on about is the 'emoticons' - Have SE removed them?

Esato discussion forum