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To: DownSouth who wrote (2736)6/14/2000 8:22:00 AM
From: Poet  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22706
 
Hi DS,

I use the grinny things here simply to annoy.
Actually, the use of emoticons on the internet has some very interesting linguistic implications. Theory says that the pictorial representation of the human face on the internet is a way of reestablishing the facial cues in conversation.

But who gives a flying one, eh?

HP


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