1. Internet Terminology and Linguistic Conventions
... written communication in chat room or e-mail. Emoticons are created to compensate for this inability. Emoticons are very useful for internet users because not only they are easy to create and quickly help their online partners understand what they want to say, but they also avoid possible misinterpretations. There are thousands of emoticons available on the internet with no standard definitions ... , and more are being created every day. Nowadays emoticons are not only limited only to techno-geeks, but even to everyday people who spend only a short time looking in their e-mail ... inbox...
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