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"Smilies" and "Emoticons" are small graphical images that can be used to convey an emotion, thought or feeling. Certain standard strings are automatically converted into smilies. You are invited to use them in the room while chatting, but please be respectful and do not scroll, nor play when the room is busy or someone is sharing an experience. Also, some of the images are case sensitive, and will only work if you type in lowercase. Enjoy!
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Emoticons are "emotional icons" for messaging. Also known as "smileys", these modern-day glyph shapes are used to add emotion and style to email. Emoticons, when used well, can add the subtleties of vocal inflection, facial expression, and body language to a written note.
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Participant A thought Emoticons have a role of supporting the main language, and it could be understood as an “expanding language”. Participant B thought Emoticons will continue to grow because it is already the part of people’s culture. Both participants thought that Emoticons will coexist with the standard language because of its supportive role.
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Upon selecting one of the above actions, the PowerPlugs: Emoticons toolbar displays underneath the Outlook menu / toolbar. You can then choose from four categories of emoticons (Standard, Animated 2-D, Animated-3D and Gem-Like), as well as style, color and size. Once you've made you choice of these options, the emoticon is automatically inserted exactly where your cursor is currently set in the body of your email.
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Emoticons represent the facial expressions, emotions, moods, or gestures that cannot be conveyed with plain text. Adding emoticons to your post will complement your text with fun and colorful graphics. If you’re interested in displaying custom emoticons on your community, look no further than a Gold Community subscription to receive this feature.
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Emoticons were invented by Scott Fahlman on the CMU bulletin board system. Scott came up with the idea for emoticons (a.k.a. smileys or smilies) because he noticed a problem on the bulletin board system when some people would post a humorous or sarcastic comment, but the people reading it would not get the joke because it was impossible to express thoughts and feelings like you do in face to face communications Scott invented the emotion by suggesting the use of :-) to show pleasure and :-( to show displeasure. The idea caught on like wildfire and the humble emoticon, or smiley was invented. Others started designing their own emoticons almost immediately and today emoticons are used extensively.
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