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Just add the right emoticon to your email and everyone will know what self-expressive effect you thought you kind-of had in mind. And a smiley is, famously, this:įorget the idea of selecting the right words in the right order and channelling the reader's attention by means of artful pointing. Emoticons are the proper name for smileys. That's why they came up with the emoticon, too-the emoticon being the greatest (or most desperate, depending how you look at it) advance in punctuation since the question mark in the reign of Charlemagne. Which is why, of course, people use so many dashes and italics and capitals ("I AM joking!") to compensate. “Clicking on "send" has its limitations as a system of subtle communication.
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