Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:48:20AM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > Guilty as charged.  :-p  I tend to be overliberal in my use of
> > emotes...but I *hope* it's better than being misinterpreted because you
> > can't hear tone in an email.
>
> This is a totally off-topic, tangential observation, but it was the
> abundance of emotes in YH's emails that clued me in to the fact that she
> was female (before I found out definitely). :-P
<blink>  (and confirming Teoh's observation)  It's a good but not
absolute predictor.  I've noticed that people who frequent MUDs use
emotes a lot (Josh Rosenthal, a friend who's in Australia this semester,
comes to mind).  I've also known women practically never emote.  But
hey--whatever gets the point across.

OC, I've had a couple people on this list and elsewhere mistake me for
male, even with the emotes.  Who knows?  =^)

YHL, female