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Selasa, 16 Oktober 2012

emoticon


An emoticon (/ɨˈmtɨkɒn/) is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks and letters, usually written to express a person's feelings or mood.
Emoticons are often used to alert a responder to the tenor or temper of a statement, and can change and improve interpretation of plain text; emoticons for a smiley face :-) and sad face :-( appear in the first documented use in digital form. The word is a portmanteau word of the English words emotion and icon. In web forumsinstant messengers andonline games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called emoticons as well. Certain complex character combinations can only be accomplished in a double-byte language, giving rise to especially complex forms, sometimes known by their romanized Japanese name of kaomoji.
The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century, and they were commonly used in casual and humorous writing.They are used mainly in text messages and emails. Digital forms of emoticons on the Internet were included in a proposal by Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University in PittsburghPennsylvania, in a message on 19 September 1982.

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