Re: emoticons
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 13:49:16 +1000
> 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
I'm quite fascinated by the phenomena and find it difficult to stop myself
slipping one of these (: in my writings now when I want to make it clear
I'm being sarcastic or humorous. I actually wrote and directed a short film
on the topic last year (our film class was given `About Face' to base our
work on) - about a couple who meet on the internet and find they cannot
communicate any other way, with a subplot about how in 1967 they changed
Barbie's face and no one really cared. I wrote a paper on it that got
published in the gallery's exhibition booklet - if anyone's interested to
read it I've posted it on The Inverted Forest for yer reading pleasure ...
www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest/Barbie.html
Camille
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