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- noun Plural form of
emoticon .
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Maybe you send me a nice email saying that it really moved you and I get paid, what, in emoticons?
Special Guest Post: Publishing Industry Evisceration Edition!!!! 2009
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Maybe you send me a nice email saying that it really moved you and I get paid, what, in emoticons?
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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I admit that I have used and occasionally abused the semicolon in emoticons – always in a highly informal context – but have yet to decide if that constitutes a lapse of some sort.
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I admit that I have used and occasionally abused the semicolon in emoticons – always in a highly informal context – but have yet to decide if that constitutes a lapse of some sort.
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Another interesting function of emoticons is misdirection.
On Emoticons Richard Nokes 2005
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Another interesting function of emoticons is misdirection.
Archive 2005-08-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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Here's a gallery of even older emoticons from the 1970s-era PLATO system:
Boing Boing: September 8, 2002 - September 14, 2002 Archives 2002
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Recently I discovered that my BlackBerry has 30 "emoticons" - icons designed to express emotion - preloaded for texting.
NYT > Home Page By BEN WIDDICOMBE 2010
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EDIT: I believe what I am on about is the 'emoticons' - Have SE removed them?
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EDIT: I believe what I am on about is the 'emoticons' - Have SE removed them?
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