ravi wrote: > I have always considered the avoidance of emoticons a strange sort of > social ineptitude or ignorance (perhaps driven by a fear of loss of > gravitas?). I am glad to see you have seen the light!
My reasoning was a bit different. E-mail addresses required this new symbol @. Modern math, logic, etc. continuously introduce new symbols, because they need them to denote new things. Emotions, on the other hand, have been around for a while. And it seemed that traditional writing had managed well to communicate emotions without new symbols. Why use them then? It's not that I have never used them, but I always felt it was sloppy. Or lazy. Now, when you realize that today's online communications are not as calm and reflective as older forms of written communication used to be, it's obvious I underestimated the force of laziness. Or, put in a better light, the impulse to economize time. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
