Article: Commentary: Tech Talk: Emoticons -- the beginning of a new language or the latest fad?

Article: For better or worse, adults learn to say it with emoticons
International Herald Tribune;  July 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......frown face to regretfully inform me.''Emoticons, she added, should be reserved for use...soccer practice is canceled.''If only.Emoticons, the smiling, winking and frowning faces...form of shorthand for computer-geeks, emoticons - an open-source form of pop art that...

Article: Emoticons evoke emotions in e-mails.(Life-Today)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 26, 2005 ;     535 words ......Worden of Pequot Lakes, Minn., calls emoticons, those sideways punctuation faces used...magicians Penn and Teller - wrote that emoticons are used by people who would dot their...High-Tech Dictionary now displays 239 emoticons, including shocked, :-o (a pound sign...

Article: Emoti-whats? Emoticons :-).
Appleseeds;  April 1, 2008 ;     461 words ......tidy little bundles of symbols called emoticons. Emoticons are a series of keyboard symbols, letters, and numbers that represent a facial...see at right. The funny thing about emoticons is E M0 that they need to be read...left and see if you can read these emoticons. Match the emoticon on ...

Article: A Generational Approach to Using Emoticons as Nonverbal Communication.(COMMUNICATION)
Technical Communication;  May 1, 2005 ;     217 words ...A Generational Approach to Using Emoticons as Nonverbal Communication F. Krohn...article is to help determine whether ... emoticons in computer mediated communication (CMC...cues in electronic CMC. A variety of emoticons are then described including the traditional...

Article: Sarah Jenkins Colum -- Keep Those Letters Coming
Yakima Herald-Republic;  January 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ......pages inside this section for the monthly "Letters Recap." Each month of 1999, editorial page...Bill Lee has published a short tally of letters to the editor that have been published. And today's Letters Recap allows me to point with pride to...

Article: sideways glance; Emoticons add personality to e-mail messages
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  August 5, 2001 ;     674 words ......into an art form %/v with emoticons tailored to virtually any...our Xs and Os on the love letters we used to write." Emoticons are generally credited to...McCarthy said, "like in the letters I write to my friends." The...replied :-y . Rea admits emoticons cannot be used in every situation...

Article: The Letters of Marsilio Ficino.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Marsilio Ficino. The Letters of Marsilio Ficino. Volumes 1-7. Trans...ISBN: 0-85683-010-0. Ficino divided his letters into twelve books. The translators...described as freestanding treatises than as letters: they represent rough drafts whose finished...

Article: From Mike's Blog; We want your letters, but keep 'em snappy
Concord Monitor;  February 6, 2006 ;     508 words ...How do you decide which letters to print? During public appearances...more space than most newspapers to letters. The second, a logical partner of the...warm, funny and thoughtful that their letters get high readership. Every survey we...

Article: China Exclusive: China saves endangered "home letters" to preserve cultural tradition
Xinhua News Agency;  September 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Exclusive: China saves endangered "home letters" to preserve cultural tradition By Li...is much more convenient (than writing letters)," she said. When telephone and the Internet...of the Chinese people,traditional "home letters," written in black and white, have been...

Article: A&E Network Will Explore the Art of Letter Writing and Interpersonal Correspondence in the New Series, 'THE LETTERS'.
PR Newswire;  July 11, 2003 ;     590 words ...Love letters, poison pen letters, Dear John letters, letters from prison, letters from Presidents, letters from the road, letters from the war front, chain letters, hate mail, letters that lie, letters that start wars, letters that end friendships...

Article: HIDDEN SET OF LETTERS TELL THE FAMINE STORY.(News)
Sunday Mirror (London, England);  January 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ......MICHELLE O'KEEFFE A HISTORICAL set of letters hidden since the Famine have been found...worst ever disaster. The collection of 28 letters was written by 19th Century scholar Dr...generations of his family - until today. The letters to his cousin Patrick in Waterford span...

Article: Getting in touch with your emoticons.
Automotive News;  July 16, 2001 ;     127 words ...Emoticons - emotional icons - are those sometimes clever, sometimes silly symbols...Internet. Some call them smileys. To others, they're just geekspeak. Many emoticons were created to look like a face with features when rotated 90 degrees...sampling, check out ...

Article: AN OPEN LOVE LETTER TO 'LOVE LETTERS'
The Boston Globe;  February 23, 1990 ;     700+ words ...LOVE LETTERS Play in two acts by A.R. Gurney Directed...I've always liked reading other people's letters -- ever since an 18th-century course when...his son, not to mention Horace Walpole's letters to Thomas Gray. I've also had a particular...

Article: Composers' Letters
The American Music Teacher;  October 1, 1998 ;     485 words ...Composers' Letters, edited by Jan Fielden, Marginalia Press, 1995. 192 pp. With this collection of letters by composers, the editor presents in chronological...and performances. The editor hopes these letters will give the reader "fresh insight into...