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Subject: 
Re: Constructive criticism vs. sugar coating
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Date: 
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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  Re: Constructive criticism vs. sugar coating
 
(...) 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! (24 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

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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 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)  

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