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5 Jul 2011, 7:29 pm
About emoticons: | ← Older revision | Revision as of 18:29, 5 July 2011 | | Line 1,375: | Line 1,375: | | | OK... Sometimes, I try to prove my points of view through long streaks of arguments, but this time I'll begin by just trying to disprove what you guys said up until now. | | OK... Sometimes, I try to prove my points of view through long streaks of arguments, but this time I'll begin by just trying to disprove what you guys said up until now. | | | * Emoticons are punctuation marks; they punctuate. | | * Emoticons are punctuation marks; they punctuate. | | - | * Emoticons are punctuation marks, punctuation marks are symbols and emoticons are symbols. Both "Symbol" and "Punctuation mark" would be accurate headers. The latter is just more strict, thus better to my taste. (Alternatively, the header "Emoticon" would be very very strict and accurate, even natural, but ''too'' strict to my taste.) | + | * Emoticons are punctuation marks, punctuation marks are symbols, and emoticons are symbols. Both "Symbol" and "Punctuation mark" would be accurate headers. The latter is just more strict, thus better to my taste. (Alternatively, the header "Emoticon" would be very very strict and accurate, even natural, but ''too'' strict to my taste.) | | | * "I'm happy." is an example of something that is written, not a punctuation mark and conveys an emotion. However, there are punctuation marks that convey emotions, notably "!", "??", "..." and [[scare quote]]s. | | * "I'm happy." is an example of something that is written, not a punctuation mark and conveys an emotion. However, there are punctuation marks that convey emotions, notably "!", "??", "..." and [[scare quote]]s. | | | --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 18:19, 5 July 2011 (UTC) | | --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 18:19, 5 July 2011 (UTC) | |
