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“Signed a big client!” “Things are looking up!” “______ got a promotion to ___________!” “Releasing our new version/marketing campaign/product tomorrow!”
by paulcole 5y ago
“Signed a big client!”
“Things are looking up!”
“______ got a promotion to ___________!”
“Releasing our new version/marketing campaign/product tomorrow!”
- TeMPOraL 5y agoMaybe I'm too old, but in all these cases, the exclamation mark is doing all of the job of expressing elation, and adding a rocketship icon would be redundant.
- paulcole 5y agoIs smiling when saying these things face-to-face redundant because the tone of your voice does all of the job of expressing elation?
- TeMPOraL 5y agoYou can't say these things in the right tone without smiling - the very act of smiling changes how you speak.
- paulcole 5y agoYou’re getting warmer!
- TeMPOraL 5y agoOk, fair, I guess you're trying to bait me into admitting that emojis are a way of expressing fundamentally different shades of emotions that are possible with ASCII. I suppose this may be right, some people may be already thinking in emojis, the way some of my generation learned to think in emoticons.