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

[Charles Behney <charlesaugust@theriver.com>]

The ! and the ? work as early emoticons. A set of periods....pauses the
thought process. XXX signifies love to some.

Cartoon cussing =
*#@&%!!!!!

CAB!!!

Kris Shapar wrote:


> 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?
>
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