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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
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Alphonse Q Muthafuyer Muthafuyer At Gmail Dot Com wrote: You are being over-sensitive. This is the internet. It's not, actually. Anyway, you may want to give some thought to whether or not your writing contributed to the misunderstanding. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
Response from sallytighe :
To be honest, I thought it was intended to be snippy rather than funny too. But then I also thought the original comment was a bit harsh. Snippy? How in the world did it come off as snippy with a big smiley face next to it? Also, since you call yourself a linguist, compare the definition of snippy to the lengthy response I gave Shelly. There was nothing curt about my ramble. : ) It's writing that's the problem -- you lose everything that's conveyed by body language, both the cues from the other person as to what it's OK to say, and the stuff in your own body language that tones what you say up or down. That's what they made emoticons for. Well, at least for the ability to emote electronically. Anyway, I hope there are no hard feelings. None taken, none given. -- -Lost Remove the extra words to reply by e-mail. Don't e-mail me. I am kidding. No I am not. |
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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
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-Lost wrote: Snippy? How in the world did it come off as snippy with a big smiley face next to it? Wow. That's what they made emoticons for. Well, at least for the ability to emote electronically. "They" created them as a form of sarcasm, but they're widely used as an adaptive tool by people who can't write. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
(Melinda Shore) wrote in
: "They" created them as a form of sarcasm, but they're widely used as an adaptive tool by people who can't write. Yes. And, call me silly, but smilies invariably tweak my passive- aggressive meter. -- Shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship) http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther) |
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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
"-Lost" wrote in message
... It's writing that's the problem -- you lose everything that's conveyed by body language, both the cues from the other person as to what it's OK to say, and the stuff in your own body language that tones what you say up or down. That's what they made emoticons for. Well, at least for the ability to emote electronically. Wow. And here I thought that's what proper writing skills were supposed to accomplish. Silly me. I actually believed my sixth grade English teacher when she said sentence structure and vocabulary were important components of coherent writing. Had I inserted an emoticon into my homework assignments, I'm almost certain that she would have subtracted points from my grade. However did people manage to write understandable sentences, paragraphs and even whole books before the invention of emoticons? Judy |
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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
Response from (Melinda Shore):
In article , -Lost wrote: Snippy? How in the world did it come off as snippy with a big smiley face next to it? Wow. Let me guess... you thought that was snippy too? That's what they made emoticons for. Well, at least for the ability to emote electronically. "They" created them as a form of sarcasm, but they're widely used as an adaptive tool by people who can't write. And am I to take it that you were there when "they" created emoticons and know for a fact that they were meant to convey sarcasm? For example: http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html -- -Lost Remove the extra words to reply by e-mail. Don't e-mail me. I am kidding. No I am not. |
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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
Response from Shelly :
(Melinda Shore) wrote in : "They" created them as a form of sarcasm, but they're widely used as an adaptive tool by people who can't write. Yes. And, call me silly, but smilies invariably tweak my passive- aggressive meter. Um... that sounds like a personal problem? Because as of this post, I'm tired of trying to explain myself and be polite. I've noticing a trend in this group -- Overly sensitive females who have nothing better to do than gripe. -- -Lost Remove the extra words to reply by e-mail. Don't e-mail me. I am kidding. No I am not. |
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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
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-Lost wrote: Let me guess... you thought that was snippy too? Heck, no. I thought it was silly. I've seen every form of nasty, incoherent, sarcastic, stupid, badly-written crap have a smiley appended to it. Sometimes the author uses it because he knows he's a bad writer, and sometimes the author uses it to distance himself from or remove responsibility for something he's written (for example, "GAY = Got AIDS Yet? :-). It was a *joke*! Lighten up!!! You people are so sensitive!"). Couldn't tell which yours was. And am I to take it that you were there when "they" created emoticons and know for a fact that they were meant to convey sarcasm? Yes, actually. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
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-Lost wrote: I've noticing a trend in this group -- Overly sensitive females who have nothing better to do than gripe. OOPS. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Yellow frothy liquid vomit.
Response from "Judy" :
"-Lost" wrote in message ... It's writing that's the problem -- you lose everything that's conveyed by body language, both the cues from the other person as to what it's OK to say, and the stuff in your own body language that tones what you say up or down. That's what they made emoticons for. Well, at least for the ability to emote electronically. Wow. And here I thought that's what proper writing skills were supposed to accomplish. Silly me. I actually believed my sixth grade English teacher when she said sentence structure and vocabulary were important components of coherent writing. Had I inserted an emoticon into my homework assignments, I'm almost certain that she would have subtracted points from my grade. However did people manage to write understandable sentences, paragraphs and even whole books before the invention of emoticons? You may have noticed at this point, you "ladies" have applied semantics to my last nerve. First, your "proper writing skills" garbage has no bearing on my statement about emoticons usefulness in emoting oneself via electronic means such as e-mail, or *gasp!* Usenet. I think the whole lot of you holier than thou ladies ought to take yourselves down a notch. If it makes you feel high and mighty to feebly attempt to belittle someone whilst you sit upon your mighty "I'm a Usenet Queen" pedestals... then you're seriously lacking in more than one department. Here I thought I was in rec.pets.dogs.health, but I feel like I'm in alt.ridiculously.self-absorbed. -- -Lost Remove the extra words to reply by e-mail. Don't e-mail me. I am kidding. No I am not. |
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