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It annoys me how easily people get confused by the lack of emoticons and the heightening of language use, especially, textually, and proceed to jump to the conclusion that the barer of the intellect is somehow deranged, angry or generally displeased.
For some reason, you need to thoroughly make it clear that you are in no way disgruntled in order to save accusations that you are somehow 'heated'. And it all boils down to the simple fact that, unless you smother the other in the debate, conversation, whatever you will call it with clear affection to them, rather than indifference and just generally, dealing with the subject matter, paranoia seems to ensue. How insecure this generation is clear to be, it would seem.
But, oddly, in person, it's fine.
I suppose it is the lack of tone that frightens people and how vast its interpretations can be, and people generally side with the negative.
I'm not sure why, really, maybe it is just one of those things people tarnish as the 'human nature' but, it is darn right silly.
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The Use Of Tense, Textually.
Posted by : ELMH on
Thursday, 19 February 2009
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You should bear in mind what it is that emoticons are replacing when put into the context of Instant Messaging. The use of language in person is not imposing because there is a face there to signify the emotional state of the speaker. In text you have but the text to go on. If you want to use longer words (or indeed longer sentances than the simple "yeh") you should, in my humble opinion, incorporate floral language which emphasizes the tone of the text. Alterinatively, you could add, for example, a colon followed by the letter p, as I'm sure you've noticed I do quite regularly, to give your communicative partner a simple and dirty signifier for the tone in which your message can be read.
But, I shouldn't have to. Which is my point. But i've said that.
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