olaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Actually, they were developed as a shorthand form during the days of 300bit-per-second modems at online costs that were sometimes several $$ a minute. For eg.: <gd+rvvf> means: "grinning, ducking and running very very fast" to millions of old time compuserve users.
On 7 sep 2006, at 03.37, 25hz wrote:
Aye, while "emoticons" might be a pain, regardless of how concise one might
try to be, it can very easily be misinterpreted by someone on the other end.
Predominantly, this is because (according to a number of human interaction
studies), more than 60% of any conversation between two people (face to
face) is non-verbal. In an email message, emoticons are the closest thing
to that missing 60% that one can find regardless of how articulate you try
to be.
If smileys really are that effective in supporting written language it surprises me they have not yet entered literature.
olaf
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