Re: [PLUG] [OT] psychobabble and smilies (was [OT] linguistics on this list :) )

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

kaze wrote:

> Do to their lack of redundant meta-communications modalities, all ListServ
> (and email in general) communication should be taken with an implied smiley.
>
> Inotherwords when talking f2f you have body language, hand movements, eye
> contact, non-verbal cues, on the phone you have more than email too, so the
> brain, often incorrectly, reads between the lines, in email...
>
>  

This logic would also apply to old fashioned paper correspondence... and 
there had been few problems there.  I think we are seeing two reasons 
for legitimate smiley proliferation.

  1. Encroaching illiteracy leading to a loss of a literary sense of humor.
  2. The Internet phenomenon of corresponding with people you never
     met.  Often the context cues come from knowing the writer.


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