Hi Tamar,
If we're going to get serious about it ...
FWIW, I agree with you - otherwise there are just too few cues in this medium.
Cheers,
Andrew
>>Hi Len,
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>>Don't you know that the smiley icon and the JOKE postscript are the on-line equivalent of the Laugh Track - the yanks would feel lost without them :)
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>Actually, I view the "< g >" as the on-line equivalent of the grin you'd see if we were talking face-to-face or hear if we were on the phone. That's because I see this kind of discussion as the equivalent of a conversation. Viewed that way, it makes sense to use it.
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>OTOH, I get really annoyed about emoticons in books and magazines. In a publication, if it's not funny enough to stand by itself, take it out.
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>Tamar
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
From Top 22 Developer Responses to defects in Software
2. "It’s not a bug, it’s a feature."
1. "I thought I fixed that."
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