It's a living language, and one of the powerful evolutionary forces leaning on it is the prevalence of written Internet-mediated communication. Some of this stuff will catch on, some not. You are part of the process. Go with what works for you until people tell you to stop or it starts feeling foolish. -T
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, PDML. > > As Cotty recently teased/mocked me and as Larry pointed out off-list, I am > using things like /grin/, /smile/, /evil wink/ etc. I'd like to take a step > back and have a bit of discussion thereof. > > You see, I find it useful and important to be able to attach some minimal > emotional context or extra-textual context to my messages. Smileys (such as > :-), ;-), 8-), etc) don't cut it IMO, as they are cryptic and even not > always interpreted in the same way by different people. > > OTOH, if I were to describe my emotional state directly in plain words, that > would be easier to read. In order to mark apart the actual text and the > extra-textual context, I use slashes. Why slashes? Because in Thunderbird > (and I thought it was standard, whereas I am probably wrong) the following > applies: _underline_, *bold*, /italics/. Since _underline_ is for links and > *bold* is for emphasis thus what remains is /italics/ for emotions. > > Now, question is - am I being abusive in this or is this whole idea wrong > from the start? Surely I can stop using any extra-textual mark up > whatsoever, but then I am afraid, the likelihood of being misunderstood or > misunderstanding the other person on my own will be greater. > > Have your say. You can be brutal and honest or you can even do it off the > list. > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
