Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 23:26:07 CST

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    James Kass <thunder dash bird at earthlink dot net> wrote:

    >> Emoticon images, like winking faces, have their origin in ASCII
    >> strings. I'd bet that many of the others, like COCKTAIL GLASS and
    >> VIDEO CAMERA and SUNSET OVER BUILDINGS, do not.
    >
    > Aren't those examples ASCII strings?

    The names themselves are. I doubt anyone ever drew an ASCII-art picture
    of a cocktail glass or a video camera or a sunset (except maybe on ASCII
    Art Farts) that later evolved into an emoji, though.

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