[Vision2020] Emoticons?

[Paul Rumelhart]

You can also play around with the eyes a little bit.  For example, the 
big smile :-D looks even more happy like this: XD

You can also run them the other way if you want a more intense frown D-:

And, just for Tom, if you want to emote for your cat, you can use two 
equal signs and a dot with something else for the eyes:

=^.^= happy

=O.O= surprised

=$.$= greedy

etc.

You can also use a variation on the surprised one for humans:

o.O  "I'm shocked by what I just quoted."

Also, if you happen to be Japanese and want to do the traditional "put 
your hands together in front of your face and apologize" because you are 
running late, you can use:   A(^_^;;

Well, anyway, you get the idea.  There are hundreds of them, some people 
just make them up on the spot.

I'm glad my misspent youth (and adulthood) posting on Internet forums 
didn't go to waste.

Paul

Tom Hansen wrote:
> Here is a collection of freeely accessible emoticons.
>
> http://messenger.msn.com/Resource/Emoticons.aspx
>
> Are you sure that you want to open Pandora's box of emoticons?
>
> There are several websites with openly accessible emoticons that are
> rather profane (to put it nicely), including a rather artistic "FU*K YOU"
> emoticon, as well as a wide variety of some sexually suggestive emoticons.
>
> Hey! What am I to do during bad weather days?  Blame it on Sam or Darrell.
>  It was their idea.
>
> Tom Hansen
>
> On Thu, December 30, 2010 11:44 am, Darrell Keim wrote:
>   
>> Emoticons are the way of the future, Don ;^)
>>
>> I actually had a student last month turn-in a handwritten test with
>> emoticons on it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Don Coombs <mushroom at moscow.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Sam Scripter wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Are there still people out there restricted to "_plain text_"? I mean,
>>>> of course,
>>>> V2020 members _other than_ those who post extensively from _hand-held
>>>> mobile
>>>> devices_, where fiddling with font treatments is undoubtedly a big
>>>> inconvenience.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Think what Shakespeare could have accomplished if he
>>> hadn't been so handicapped!
>>>
>>> (I am a fan of Sam's -- I am ! -- but he and I are
>>> going to have to disagree about emoticons.)
>>>
>>> Don Coombs
>>>
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> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
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