CHAT: smiley faces (was Re: INTERSYSTEMAL CONLANG)

In a message dated 07/01/2002 01.59.17 AM, jeff jones writes:

>I didn't know it was a reflex. Can it be cured?
    :?  <=== tongue-in-cheekie, takin' on a SoCal surfpunk accent };}
     ... NOPE!, it'z _like_ dope, maan, ya haf no hope!... af'erall, _like_
William S. Burroughs zay'd dhat language ez _like_ a viruz, duuude! And we
_be_ on dha 'Net, man, w'ere dhere's _like_ hell-a virusiz...   *_^

>I thought it was just a convention like those smiley faces I usually can't
>figure out.
    Ya mean "emoticons"  0_o?

    ASCII emoticon portrait of the Walt Disney character "Stitch" ===>    ';'

    OBCONLANG:  Emoticons are IMHHO more fun than Blissymbols (or whatever
they're called...  ;}

    >^..^<

Hanuman Zhang  >8}
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