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From: chris@fwi.uva.nl (chris verhoef)
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Subject: Talk: New emoticon?
Date: 11 Aug 1994 11:58:52 -0500
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gratien@acsu.buffalo.edu (MJ) & /dev/emoticonizer write:
>Well, I happen to <3 it - I think it is very creative, and *I* could tell
>what it was before I was told it was a <3.  I guess you just need a lot
>of imagination in the first place, I dunno.  I think it's <3ly.

i think dis is not a question of beauty but a question of ecomomic usage
of lingo:  4 me its now possible to express some feelin with just two
characters but if no 1 is gonna use it im on a linguistic island...

  --chris

Consistency is the last refuge of an uncreative person.