Smilies

[Aemilius Paulus]

I hate them. They make me sound like a little kid or some immature teen (yah, I know, shuddup ) but I find that if I do not use them, then so much of what I say appears mildly to moderately insulting. IRL, that same stuff would not hurt a fly (although some of the stuff prolly could), but without the context of speech, online, it can quickly turn offensive without the intention of doing so.

In fact, it felt like half the infractions I got were misunderstandings that could have been remedied by smilies (of course, the other half was still because I was an ****). But I hate smilies. I dislike being banned since I miss all the Backroom debates, so I have a paradox. Eventually, with too many bans, I decided to go all out, and unleash the plague of the smilies. So far, I am totally clean since my last winter, month-long vacation - which coincided with my Uni vacation (hugs & kisses and Merry Late Christmas Ser Clegane ).

So it's working. But I hate smilies. They screw up perfectly serious posts in the Backroom and make me look like a dunce in the middle of a bunch of professors (intermingled with some freshman students, if I daresay so )


And also, I use the : tongue : too much. Damn the tongue Asdgsdhagadrfighpoderuadhersy;sdrihyaeroiaehrjhoyhsez)(@%^(_#!^79*%@2)*@#_1)!@+^!.....


Grrrr...




Any thoughts? I actually read in one of my textbooks that smilies can and should be used in official e-mails precisely because so much of what we say is body language (which is not conveyable because the cursed smilies apparently clog the tubes)...



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What? Agfhasdgkasudgu!!!!

I should take a break...

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SMILIE GENOCIDE!!!!!11