Emoticons (WAS RE: Press coverage favors big companies, earlier speakers)

["Kris Shapar" <shapar@moon.jic.com>]

But hasn't writing existed for millenia without emoticons, which 
could only have been introduced in the last 10 years or so? Have 
humans really changed so much in this wink of evolutionary time as 
to make emoticons necessary?

On 24 Jul 98, about RE: Press coverage favors big companies, earlier , Eric M. Bennett <ericb@pobox.com> had this to say:

> >I've been on the Net for ten years, and generally despise "emoticons."
> >
> >If you can't recognize sarcasm, ain't my fault.
> >
> >-Declan
> 
> This unfortunately sidesteps the problem that there are many people in the
> world who have opinions that greatly differ from yours, and who might
> truly believe in a comment that you intend to be sarcastic.  Sarcasm


                                 
Kris Shapar
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