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

["Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:06:36 -0400 (EDT), 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?
>
<snip>

Indeed.  I admit I've used them since E-mail's birth on the Internet, but 
less now.  Dickens, Shakespeare, Rebecca West, Louis Stevenson...classical
writers...keep giving us brevity today, and profundity, from their styles 
yesteryear.

You don't have to jump up and down, spit and snort, to use the language
to make a clear point.

Erick