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people who use laughing smilies in odd places
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| noikeee |
Have you ever noticed this? Sometimes folks from this forum will use laughing smilies in places where there's no hint of funniness nor an attempt to joke at all. Often happens in other sections dedicated to music such as dj promotion, tracklists, etc. Examples:
| quote: | in a thread about a tracklist archive...
Updated. :stongue: |
| quote: | in a thread about an amateur music prodution...
nobody comments my track?!
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue: :stongue: :haha: :haha: :haha: |
Seriously, what the . Why? Do these people think they are being funny in these random posts? Do they not notice the ing icon is a small cartoon laughing? I've also noticed this tends to happen with people from eastern european countries, or people who have some trouble with the english language. Does this mean having trouble with english is correlated to having trouble interpreting universal wordless pictures?
Incidentally, I often do something similar which is to insert "lol" at the end of a sentence. Like this sentence, lol. It doesn't have much of a purpose, it's just an annoying habit to make it sound like I'm writing informally and/or like I'm not being completely serious about what I'm writing.
And yes, I thought this was important enough to write a lot about it and make a thread about it. |
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| leph555 |
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| Omega_M |
All new n00bs use this smiley  |
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| leph555 |
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| smakmagik |
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| paulandrews |
I don't know about the laughing ones but the misuses of smilies in general bug the out of me. I also noticed it's usually illiterate noobs who do that.
I remember stuff like:
| quote: | | can any1 help me idenify tis grate tune pls??! :whip: |
What the hell? |
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| silene |
| good point, and great thread ,, lol :mad: |
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| Cloudburst |
least used smiley:
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| nchs09 |
i dont understand it either  |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cloudburst
least used smiley:
:sadgreen:
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| wizniz |
its a social thing
i laugh ----> you like me
laughter is the opposite of threatening. it's inviting. but sometimes people overuse the smilies as you've noticed. lol!!1
i prefer randomness & therefore lol at my own discretion. |
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