Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Joó Ádám (ceriak@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2008 - 12:38:54 CST


> The syntactical form of English exclamations is usually identical to the
> syntactical form of English questions, so the punctuation marks distinguish
> and tell us how to read them.

Exactly. Just as emoticons can distinguish and tell us how to read them.
Sometimes I feel it's too bad that irony mark* has never got widespread use…

Regards,
Ádám

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark



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