Hoot Mon writes:
Emoticons and smilies have zero literary value.
I'll remember that when I'm rewriting
Hamlet.
In real-life conversations, however, I will continue to give face-to-face feedback to people I am talking to.
And since the Internet is a conversational medium, I will continue to use (and encourage the use) of emoticons.
In the spirit of Mark Twain, it's better to use a smilie to indicate that you're joking than to have people think you're just an idiot.
Case in point, somebody who constantly has his messages "misunderstood"
should unstuff his "power of words" shirt and use every means at his disposal to convey his meaning.
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