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Emoticons: Miscellaneous
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There are 48 standard Yahoo emoticons, which can be seen in the emoticon popup within your chat windows. The reference card below, outlines the emoticons, their keyboard shortcut and their relevant meanings. You can save the card to your computer for later reference.
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There are even special emoticons for holidays. For example, *<|: o )> gives you Santa Claus, complete with his hat with the fur ball on it, his round nose, grin and beard. Another way to represent the jolly one: sntAclws.
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Users of 2channel in particular have developed a wide variety of unique emoticons using obscure characters. Some have taken on a life of their own and become characters in their own right, like Mona.
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This research focuses on finding the differences of Emoticons literacy between two different age groups. The survey result shows that there are significant differences in certain areas. But these differences come from the cultural background that each age group possesses. The ability to decode new and sophisticated Emoticons did not show significant difference. This result indicates that Emoticons should be understood in the context of Internet language reflecting culture.
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Typographical emoticons were published in 1881 by the U.S. satirical magazine Puck. In 1912 Ambrose Bierce proposed "an improvement in punctuation — the snigger point, or note of cachinnation: it is written ... \___/! and presents a smiling mouth. It is to be appended, with the full stop, [or exclamation mark as Bierce's later example used] to every jocular or ironical sentence".[3]
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The age group of 20 gave more correct answers than the age group of 30 when answering questions about 1) Basic Emoticons. The age group of 20 answered more correctly than the age group of 30 when answering questions about 2) Culture related Emoticons. But both the age group of 20 and 30 showed similar result when answering questions about 3) Advanced-more sophisticated Emoticons.
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