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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:21 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:05 am
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:56 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:11 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:22 am
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:07 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:49 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:06 am
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:22 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:48 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:39 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:55 am
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Quite honestly, I voted yes, because I consider them an informal means of worded communication. I am of the opinion that use of smilies, or ESPECIALLY overuse of them, is more of a cop-out for portraying actual emotion with the words you use. This is not always true, everyone's inclined to let a few slip easily and hell, I've even seen them used in job-related emails when I was going in for an interview, but smilies work like an adverb to further infuse your statements to avoid confusion on the reader's behalf.
Understandably, sometimes you just can't put that smile into words (and sometimes online a nice *smile* doesn't exactly have the same killer-effect as that little yellow emoticon that so often pops up) but I personally refrain from using them if I can convey otherwise. I consider "text talk" an informal, and slightly lazy manner of speech, so I group smilies in with that on account of them being an informal and slightly lazy manner of showing emotion. Moreover, I consider it almost a dialect or writing style, and I am not the type to judge emotes when they come along.
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:05 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:54 am
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:00 pm
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