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  • The latest story line involves an alien race called the Emoticons, who have lost the ability to communicate verbally.

    Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! 2007

  • Emoticons: Added four new emoticon packs to choose from

    Digsby Updates, Improves Performance, Adds New Features | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Emoticons built with parentheses don't have to be paired with other parentheses, as this parenthesis mark obviously is.

    The Times 2009

  • Emoticons built with parentheses don't have to be paired with other parentheses, as this parenthesis mark obviously is.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Emoticons can mean whatever the writer and reader want them to mean, until, of course the meaning is explicitly defined [...] [Read more →]

    2008 April 2008

  • In “Emoticons During Wartime,” a recent article in The New Yorker (December 10, 2007), Tom McNichol documents the usefulness of emoticons in communicating by visual innuendo.

    2008 April 2008

  • "Emoticons are necessary," Hurst maintains, "because there is no subtlety in e-mail, and jokes do not transmit well."

    How To Write An Effective E-Mail 2010

  • Emoticons and other symbols will add to the context you are trying to get across.

    Transcript: Internet Professionalism « Coyote Con 2010

  • "Emoticons are necessary," Hurst maintains, "because there is no subtlety in e-mail, and jokes do not transmit well."

    How To Write An Effective E-Mail 2010

  • "Emoticons are necessary," Hurst maintains, "because there is no subtlety in e-mail, and jokes do not transmit well."

    How To Write An Effective E-Mail 2010

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