Smileys
Smileys
(OP)
Let all hell break loose.
I don't wink when I make a dry joke face to face, and I prefer not to use smileys in my writing. I work hard to make it stand on its own. But smileys are so pervasive, people have lost their ability to discern irony and tongue-in-cheek writing without them. "No smiley?! That jerk is serious!"
I don't wink when I make a dry joke face to face, and I prefer not to use smileys in my writing. I work hard to make it stand on its own. But smileys are so pervasive, people have lost their ability to discern irony and tongue-in-cheek writing without them. "No smiley?! That jerk is serious!"
Rob Campbell
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These subtle cues are not available in written form, and there is a real possibility that things could be misunderstood by the reader.
Enter the "emoticon". They came into being for a valid reason. They are probably overused now. I rarely use them.
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Rob Campbell
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That being said, I rarely use them, and don’t consider them as part of the lexicon.
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What do you find acceptable in the written humor arena.
Smileys are just plain fun
Regards
ietech
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Rob Campbell
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It's just as bad as emoticons. But to be fair, I don't think we'll ever see any of this in professional documents. I think emoticons have their place in the casual-electronic-chat writting environment.
Ray Reynolds
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I never use them except here and in personal e-mails.
I hate those keyboard abreviation things that are neither initialisms nor acronyms, at least, not al of them.
You can say HIPPO (Hey, I'm permanently p***d-off) by these and other baggage of the "new" communications technology.
OK, we need kids to set up the video recorder. To carry our genes forward and so on (not much else you can depend on them for, you have to carry the trash out yourself, cut the grass yourself, feed the hamsters, rabbits ect yourself), but we and our ancestors spent a long time evolving the language with all the richness and subtleties of meaning. We don't need kids to replace it with gobbledegook. You'd think we should expect the kids to make it work, spell correctly, understand the rules of grammar, in short make us look as dumb about langauage as thy do the video recorder. Instead they got text messaging and e-mails before they got "the language" and they made there own.
It's about time mobile phones came with dictionaries. Hey, I've ot a great idea. Voice texting! Instead of cramping their little fingers (these kids are going to get Repetitive strain injury early) why don't they just speak their message to the phone. The voice recognition program turns it into good clean written english. Then they text it to their friends phone where the phone converts the text to back into spoken words for them.
Ain't that great? VTTTTV! (Voice to text and text to voice; and see, this is the only way i use these abreviations, define them once early on then use them. Never use them without a definition).
Now with this, i could get along. I hate text messages, i have to spell them one letter at a time because that funny spelling trick they have has me hopelessly lost, and i can't remember all those silly abreviations anyway.
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(just kidding)
I not only sometimes use smileys, I insert animated GIF's into emails just for fun. Sometimes it breaks up the stress in the work place.
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Proportional fonts: good for legibility, but not ASCII art.
Rob Campbell
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