Smiley Faces –  Showing Emotions In Text Chat

A ‘smiley face’, often called a smiley or emoticon, is used in text communications to convey an emotion with a text message. Smiley faces are used in the same way that a person’s voice changes or how facial expressions are used in face-to-face conversation. For example, if you were joking with someone and send a text message saying “GAL (get a life)” the person receiving your message may think you are making a rude comment to them. If you send the same message with a “happy smiley” : ) following the text, the person would then understand you were “smiling” – or joking around when you said that.  GAL 🙂
Showing emotions through characters in text messaging helps the receiver correctly interpret your intent and meaning.
To create a smiley face you use your standard keyboard characters and punctuation marks in sequences that look like facial expressions might. When viewing text smiley faces, they are all sideways. Here are some basics to get you started in understanding what the faces are:

The close bracket represents a sideways smile   )
Add in the colon and you have sideways eyes   :
Put them together to make a smiley face  🙂
Use the dash  –   to add a nose   🙂
Change the colon to a semi-colon ; and you have a winking face 😉  with a nose  😉
Put a zero 0 (halo) on top and now you have a winking, smiling angel 0;) with a nose 0;-)
Use the letter 8 in place of the colon for sunglasses  😎

Some chat and instant message programs will automatically translate text smiley faces into graphical emoticons. In AOL Instant messenger (AIM), for example, if you type out the characters to make a “happy face” followed by “sad face” followed by “cool sunglasses”  you would enter the following characters:

🙂   😦   😎

Once you’ve entered the text however, AIM converts the smiley text to graphics, if it can recognize the smiley pattern, and what you see on the screen in your AIM window will look like this:

Here are few examples of different smiley faces and their meanings:

Smiley Icon and their meaning

Icon Meaning 🙂 Standard smile 🙂 With nose :-E Buck-tooth or Vampire >-) Evil grin 😦 Sad or frown smile 😦 Sad with nose :-< Super sad 😛 Sticking tongue out (raspberry) (((H))) Hugs :-X Kiss on the lips `:-) One eyebrow raised :^) A broken nose :-& tongue tied E-:-) a Ham radio operator <:-) Uni-brow :-> Big grin happy (-}{-) Couple kissing :-Q Smoking $_$ Greedy @@ Rolling your eyes

Icon Meaning :-# With braces :’-) Happy Crying {:-) Toupee smile 😉 Winking smile 😉 Winking smile with nose O:-) I’m an angel (boy) O*-) I’m an angel (girl) |-O Yawn (:-D Gossip, blabbermouth @>–;– Rose @-}— Rose ())>— Rose =^.^= Cat O.o Confused C=:-) A chef (_/) (o.o) (___)0 A bunny =-O “Uh-oh” ~( 8^(I) Homer Simpson

Icon Meaning :-! “Foot in mouth” 😀 Laughter :*) Drunk smile :@ Exclamation “What???” :-@ Scream :-0 Yell %-( Confused :—–) Long nose (Liar!) :-.) Madonna :-($) Put your money where your mouth is (:I An egghead |-O Yawning :@) Pig smile Robot d[-_-]b DJ with headphones ~:0 Baby -@–@- Eyeglasses VVV/ King %%%/ Queen

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Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky: For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question. We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we have learned is that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world. Language is a uniquely human gift, central to our experience of being human. Appreciating its role in constructing our mental lives brings us one step closer to understanding the very nature of humanity.

HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? [6.12.09]
By Lera Boroditsky

LERA BORODITSKY is an assistant professor of psychology, neuroscience, and symbolic systems at Stanford University, who looks at how the languages we speak shape the way we think.

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• 

  He’s very political, you know.
  I didn’t know that.
  Well,I didn’t mean YOU knew.
  So why did you say “you know”
  Oh,well!You know!
  You’re not very articulate,are you?
  What do you mean?
  Well,you keep saying “you know” and “innit”
  Look here,just because you went to Cambridge!
  Well.we only went for a day trip!
  Really?I thought you studied there!
  I studied crime.Learned a few tricks.
  Just in one day?
  I’m a fast learner.
  I got an OU degree in E.I.
  What’s that?
  They never said!but my quotient was 55.
  Didn’t you ask?What does it mean?
  Well it’s all done on-line.It’s remote learning.Very remote for E.I.!
  You sound more articulate now.
  Since I know you never studied anything at Cambridge my self esteem has soared.
  Well,I did read some posters at the Station!
  The Railway Station?
  Yeah,they used to have lovely posters.I stole a few.Would you like to come back to my place
  and see them?
  Well,seeing as you’re so insistent……why not?
  That’s great.Shall we get some cans?
  No,we’ll get canned!
  Innit?
  THE END

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  LIFE TIME

  
  Tomatoes ripen on the stem
  Apples hang down low.
  Summer riches now and then
  From seeds that once I sowed.
  Plant your seeds with care and grace.
  Nurture them with love,
  Put them in where you have space,
  As rain falls from above.
  Slowly, and in their own time,
  They will manifest
  The form with which they were endowed.
  Richness comes at last.
  Time for sowing,time for birth
  Time for love of life.
  Time to scatter seeds abroad.
  Time to end the strife