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Re: Constructive criticism vs. sugar coating
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:17:01 GMT
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Quoting Mike Rayhawk <rayhawk@artcenter.edu>:
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> Well like I said, I'm not real fond of emoticons either, I'm just saying
> there are certain things you can communicate with ascii text and certain
> things you can't. At the risk of being completely tactless, I've noticed
> that a certain minority of the Lugnetters I've met are only able to
> communicate on an ascii level, even in person. I can remember a number of
> conversations that would have been greatly facilitated if I'd just thought
> to bring a couple of signboards with basic emoticons on them, so that I'd
> have something to hold up when even the most blatant nonverbal cues were
> just not being received.
Why didn't this ever occur to me?! I might have to print some up and keep them
in my wallet! Man! Year's wasted! Now if only I could come up with some sort
of easy format "joke explainer" so that I wouldn't have to.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) See movie-comics.com, in the archives.. one of the characters, IIRC, was a guy who just holds up signs with emoticons and internet abbreviations like LOL. Pretty funny (one of my fave bits of the comic actually) HTH! (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Constructive criticism vs. sugar coating
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| (Speaking of sugar coating... After reading through this post again I can see that there's bits in here to offend probably every single person who reads it. What can I say? I can only advise the casual reader that if you find yourself strongly (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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