home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- SMILEYS: GETTING THE MEANING OVER WITH KEYBOARD COMMUNICATIONS
-
- Remember G6WBJ's message about these? The idea is taken from the
- world of electronic mail; little symbols are made up from
- ordinary characters. At first I thought it was another case of
- non-standard characters, however I sussed it - you have to look
- at them sideways. The fundamental is :-) which is a smiling face
- - (eyes, nose and mouth). The extra ones I have `found' are:
-
- 8-) - user wears sunglasses;
-
- :-{) - has a moustache;
-
- :-Q - smokes; or
-
- @:-) - wears a turban.
-
- Thn there are mood/response ones - he/she is:
-
- :-D laughing;
- :-/ skeptical;
- :-e disappointed;
- :-7 wry; or
- :-X keeping his lips sealed.
-
- Or, getting less and less intelligible:
-
- :-F User is a buck-toothed vampire with one tooth missing;
- *:o) a clown;
- +-:-) holds religious office;
- @= is pro-nuclear; and finally (and unbelievably)
- C=}>;{)) - the user is a drunk, devilish chef with a toupe
- in an updraft, a moustache and a double chin.
-
- With acknowledgements(?) to - of all places! - the Economist!
- (October 1990).
-
- 73 de John G6JPG @ GB7ESX - Wed 21 Nov 1990 19:35 UCT