emoticons
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sat, 25 Jul 1998 09:39:20 -0600 (MDT)
As a writing teacher, I've noticed the rise of emoticons (I love to use
one myself;) and think that mr. salinger's "bouquet of parenthesis" is an
early emoticon as well, will
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
>
> > dm (Daniel Mahanty) wrote:
> >
> > > > Splendid company, indeed. Personal fascism and fantasy fiction.
> >
> > > >Catcher in the Rye is about fascism?
> >
> > > I think he meant Ayn Rand was a fascist and the Hobbit is fantasy
> fiction.
> >
> > For God's sake, give me some credit. I knew that "personal fascism"
> > referred to Atlas Shrugged. (I knew I should have added the smiley face
> > after my question, but it violates my principles to use those...) I was
> > just objecting to the use of the word fascist to describe Ayn Rand.
>
> Then maybe I should have put a smiley face after *my* comment. Cause it was
> only meant sardonically. What have you against smiley faces anyway? I think
> they're a fascinating development in the history of punctuation - `the
> carving of human images onto a cybernetic wall' I called it in an essay
> last year. I'm not a big fan of BTW and IMOH I must admit though ...
>
> (: I keep getting in trouble for putting them round the wrong way though.
> Is it (: or :)? or Elvis - (-:&
>
> Camille
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