Emoticon use

[Frans]

ever notice that it is almost required nowadays to use them? I guess it makes sense seeing as how no real emotion can be conveyed just be writing some words unless you spell it out.

I would like to have a bunch of emoticons that I could remotely raise and lower in my back window of the vehicle.
Tailgater? Just show them this
turn indicator left on? show them this or maybe this

I could have fun with this.

Hummm, maybe it is time for me to log off, if I am beginning to think about stuff like this

 

[MasterBlaster]

 

[Old Monkey]

I went off of them ages ago. I think they are a writing crutch.

 

[sotc]

I need the crutch usually

 

[woodworkingboy]

I think they are useful, just a little emphasis for clarity.

 

[Newfie]

I went off of them ages ago. I think they are a writing crutch.

No need for the "stuck up nose in the air" emoticon in that post.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Ain't a damn thing wrong with using them. To each their own.

 

[Blinky]

Sometimes they are just what I need to finish a post... but most of the time I leave the delivery nice and dry... let people guess a little bit.

 

[wiley_p]

I like 'em.

 

[stig]

When I first started writing here, I didn't want to use them.
I felt it should be possible to put ones intended meaning across, without resorting to cheap tricks.
After inadvertently pissing a few people off, maybe because my grasp of the english language isn't as good as I thought, I've started using them.
I wish I didn't have to, though.

 

[sawinredneck]

With my odd sense of humor I need to use them. I think otherwise a lot of my posts would be misunderstood by most.

 

[gf beranek]

Yeah, I suppose I should too.

 

[MasterBlaster]

without resorting to cheap tricks.

Meh, that's like saying using contractions or LOLs are cheap tricks. They're just other tricks in the bag.

 

[Old Monkey]

To sound snooty again, I am also not fond of LOLs and other web abbreviations. Oh and I like saying "cannot."

 

[Stumper]

I went off of them ages ago. I think they are a writing crutch.

 

[stig]

Meh, that's like saying using contractions or LOLs are cheap tricks. They're just other tricks in the bag.

To me the use of emoticons are something like: " I can't write well enough to get my meaning across, but instead of trying to learn to write better, I'll just toss in an emoticon to clarify".
That's why I referred to them a "cheap tricks". Contractions and abbreviations are a whole other thing.
I may be a writing elitist, but I'm not as snooty as Darin. Contractions don't bother me, I see them as a necessary evil in natural childbirth.

 

[Blinky]

I love contractions, especially the ones I make up on the fly. I like well placed smiley/emoticons too... LOLs don't do much for me though.

 

[GASoline71]

Word

Gary

 

[woodworkingboy]

Man is more and more becoming an emotionless entity, a dangerous situation, and if you care to think that emoticons are in a state of evolution within a supremely powerful medium, without better monitoring of their condition, they may one day control us.

 

[Mr. Sir]

Sorry, that wasn't me.

 

[MasterBlaster]

 

[Strikermike]

I think that you happen to be a sarcastic person. Then you will definitely need them as sarcasm does not come across well when it is written instead of spoken.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Thank you. That's the entire point of the 'lil suckers.

And my brother Stig, you're FOS.



It must be a you're a peeing thang...

 

[Al Smith]

For my learned buddy Stig ,I can write with the best of them,doubt that not for a second . This stuff is relaxation and we can let our hair down just a tad bit if we so desire .

 

[Fiddler]

What is a emocon?