From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 07:38:49 MDT
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Amara Graps wrote:
>In the Italian online community has anyone used 'gesticons',
>analogous to emoticons?
>
>
>For example,
>
>/U\ = "What the fuck do you mean?"
>
>
>I'm only half-serious, but it seems to me that 'gesticons'
>(the idea and label suggested by a friend in email) could
>add dimensions to the flat email strata for communication.
No, we just use the same emoticons :) :-) :( :D and so on, like everyone
else... the Italian online community was very little till a few years
ago, and had to adapt to English ways of communication. Now it's expanding
its user base, maybe something new will come out of this.
>Amara
>
>P.S. A new industry! We could publish dictionaries of gesticons
>for different cultures......
/U\??? No one would believe us! :-)
Alfio
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