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Posted by dorayme on 05/17/07 22:12
In article <XzS2i.164749$sA7.5214@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit Beauregard T. Shagnasty:
>
> > I know... you missed the winking smiley. <g>
>
> No, I simply ignore smileys as garbage, since they are garbage. The only
> thing that can be deduced from a smiley is that the writer might not mean
> what he writes, but we know that without a smiley, too.
Smileys can be used as a concession to ease the severity with
which some earthlings take things.
--
dorayme
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