Digital BW, The Print

I am sure it was all in good fun, Jim.

That list is amazing which you linked. When I was in Tokyo two years ago, I had to rent a phone because my cell would not work there. The phone came with emoticons that took up to 5 lines of text. They were small pictures really, made from alphanumerics and symbols. Amazing!


Generally speaking, email and list messages become the source of so many mis-understandings because they are written so casually - and we do not have the body language or the voice nuances to interpret everything. But it's also amazing how fast we can now communicate.

Jon



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, jim kitchen <jim.kitchen@...> wrote:
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> Dear Jon,
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> I guess I missed that humour in a grand way, didn¹t I?
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> I will never know, whether someone¹s humour is intentionally placed between
> the lines, or not, unless they indicate their intent while using a smilely
> form. That said, I guess I will not over analyze someone¹s comment, as if I
> were ready to calibrate a monitor, either.
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> Then again, if I was in a fighting mood... :)
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> Here is a good list of smileys, and it seems a bit of historical background,
> too...
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> <http://www.borislavdopudja.net/en/writings/smiley/>
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> jim k
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