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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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

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

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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?

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You can still show emotion and tone in your writing by using 'emoticons' - which are composed of punctuation marks.

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"Language experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect".

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They included so-called emoticons, the face symbols like ":" that punctuate digital missives.

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Please, oh please, do not offer the "emoticons" feature here.

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