I certainly use them. I have simply found that I make many jokes that people take seriously. When I put a smiley at the end, I get less of that. I do, however, need a simple one that represents flipping the bird. ;-)
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:24 AM, AlunFoto <[email protected]> wrote: > Boris, I think some of the success of the symbolic emoticons is the > very fact that they are not razorblade accurate. > > Next thing you know, someone will insert > > /Gut gass outlet -> {degrees off compass North} / > > instead of "I fart in your general direction". > > You have to ask yourself if that is really an improvement. > > Jostein > > > 2011/2/23 Boris Liberman <[email protected]>: >> On 2/23/2011 2:57 PM, David Parsons wrote: >>> >>> If someone wants to misconstrue what you have typed, emoticons won't >>> really help. >> >> Absolutely. But I want to eliminate or minimize the situation where the >> miscontrue-ment wasn't on purpose but merely because of misunderstanding or >> misuse of language. Latter happening usually on my part. >> >> Boris >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
