How To Use Emoticon In A Sentence
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Texting uses a reduced form of the English language with symbols - or emoticons - expressing emotions such as happiness or sadness.
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If you think about it, the range of human emotions is wide and varied, and also, there can be cultural nuances, or racial nuances to these human emotions and so its not surprising that you might not find an emoticon to convey what you want.
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Nothing is achieved when writing ironically or satirically by telling the reader through an "emoticon", that the preceding posting was meant to be to be a wry comment and that the reader should be amused.
Even the criminals won't file denuncias
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Use tongue-in-cheek comments and emoticons only if you know the recipient really well.
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The emoticon is a weak substitute for a coy gesture or a lusty wink.
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The word emoticon is actually the word emotion and icon bumped up together so you get the word emoticon.
CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2002
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An article that will make your IT department shudder, an appreciation of the emoticon's history and why you should take the call when your lily is on the line:
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In plurk, emoticons are an important part of community maintenance and recently twitter, not to be outdone, developed twitterkeys a way to easily use wingdings such as ♥♣.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Maybe the word emoticon doesn't ring a bell to you but you probably know what they are.
CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2002
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Thanks to emoji, the subtlety of first generation emoticons could be lost on younger generations.
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And of course, they have a full range of cartoony emoticons, called emoji, if you're into that.
NYT > Home Page
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I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense.
Boing Boing: September 1, 2002 - September 7, 2002 Archives
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Facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice are all cues missing in e-mail (and smiley-face emoticons can do only so much to replace them).
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A string containing the full path to the custom emoticon's file . EmoticonsGIF files ( for animated emoticons ).
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Emoticons and other symbols will add to the context you are trying to get across.
Transcript: Internet Professionalism « Coyote Con
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Yes, it was sort of a deliberate misinterpretation, which is why I put the smiley emoticon on it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Better Question
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It is important when you e-mail, that you use emoticons to relay the tone of your e-mail.
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There was a spate of books, on email etiquette, helping people use emoticons and other things to make humourous comments, to avoid FLAMING, and so forth.
Revisiting Personal and Professional « Beki's Blog (there's an original name)
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I thought the whole point of an emoticon was to convey an emotion or facial expression.
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I don't suppose an emoticon is better than a real smile, or a real hug.
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Since most of the 15 million users of IBM's Lotus Sametime instant-messaging service work in corporate markets, they schedule interactive online meetings, attach files to present during the meeting and engage in a spot of team white boarding--but never have the featherbrained joy of sending emoticons.
Palmisano's IBM To Make Sametime Work With AOL, Yahoo
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This is generally agreed to be the first example of what are now called emoticons, or smileys, the little sets of symbols that are used as markers in email messages.
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But it's hard to roll your eyes online, and I detest emoticons.
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Emoticons could also be sent to wearable computers embedded in jewellery.
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Being such a social networking savvy person, you may know what the term emoticon means - it's a textual expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression.
Adpunch
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Emoticons can mean whatever the writer and reader want them to mean, until, of course the meaning is explicitly defined [...] [Read more →]
2008 April
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Emoticons are necessary," Hurst maintains, "because there is no subtlety in e-mail, and jokes do not transmit well.
How To Write An Effective E-Mail
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Here's a bit from "A Proposal Under Difficulties", featuring Barlow and Yardsley, two competitors for the affections of Dorothy, where Bangs comes awfully close to inventing emoticons, or at least the 'applaud' sign for television audiences.
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Purists value keyboard-only emoticons, while younger generations embrace an advanced set of icons - the emoji.
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Take into consideration who you are communicating with to determine the acronyms and emoticons that should be used - if at all.
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It is very difficult to express emotions in email or news; your joking comment appear to be very serious to the recipient and can lead to unmeant reactions or conflicts (flames); so use emoticons to express your intention.
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Emoticons: Added four new emoticon packs to choose from
Digsby Updates, Improves Performance, Adds New Features | Lifehacker Australia
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Wil Wheaton's kid carves emoticon jack-o-lantern - Boing Boing
Boing Boing
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It's unfortunate that the commonality of social interaction relies on the implied tone of voice through emojis, emoticons, textual jargon and caps lock.
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For 25 years, the emoticon has been a mainstay of Internet culture.
CNET Australia
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On my cell phone I can receive text messages, and I can choose to use emoticons (iconic characters and messages) on the Internet.
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Emoticons built with parentheses don't have to be paired with other parentheses, as this parenthesis mark obviously is.
The Times
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Then she received the candidate's thank-you note, laced with words like "hiya" and "thanx," along with three exclamation points and a smiley-face emoticon.
Thx for the IView!
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The latest story line involves an alien race called the Emoticons, who have lost the ability to communicate verbally.
Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!
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Multiple exclamation points have their place - in amongst hearts and flowers and smileys and emoticons and xxxx and x0x0x0x0 (to the uninitiated that's hugs and kisses) - in other words ‘nice, girly gossip’.
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:-( and :-) are emoticons
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The demo will consist 4 emoticon buttons namely Kiss, Hold Hands, Hug and Wink.
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The encompassing keyboard design - with six separate pads of kanji characters, a pad for emoticons and a giant Enter button - puts every single standard-issue Japanese typograph at the users 'fingertips.
Anime Nano!
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If your heart is really broken, you're gonna use an emoticon to convey that feeling?
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To emoticon, or not to emoticon, that is the question.
Thru Thick and Thin: Connecting - It's All About the People - Kathy Aaronson - MediaBizBloggers
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In “Emoticons During Wartime,” a recent article in The New Yorker (December 10, 2007), Tom McNichol documents the usefulness of emoticons in communicating by visual innuendo.
2008 April
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The huge prevalence of texting, the internet, instant messaging and social networking means – however much dame-school grumps may deplore the fractured grammar and emoticons – the generation emerging is more engaged with the written word than any in living memory.
Don't fear the Reader: how technology can benefit children's books
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She may freely use emoticons in e-mail correspondence, but on the chessboard she is nothing short of macho.
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We are heading towards a new future where emoticons are integral in communication.
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Don't get cute: save emoticons, abbreviations, wild colors, and fonts for your non-professional emails.
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The idea is that a recipient of the emoticon can sense the actual meaning of the message that has been sent from their friend or partner.
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I'm all for these "emotional" gadgets, but somehow nothing can replace a warm, vocal, real life greeting with an emoticon or lights!
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One's self is represented by objectifying icons: the ring of the mobile phone, emoticons and other representations.
