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One of my professors was just on a panel for grad school admissions for the Slavic department and relayed us the following information:

One of the professors from an unnamed "other Ivy League university" wrote a lengthy letter of recommendation--printed and mailed, normal-style--for a student, with heavy utlization of EMOTICONS throughout the letter.

Symbolic of the degradation of written communications in the modern age, or do you think this professor just hated the shit out of this poor student?

― Allyzay, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

:-)

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"I think this student is grebt! Heavens! ;)"

― Allyzay, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

If you tell me he somehow animated the emoticons on the printed page, I'll be particularly impressed.

Oh, by the way, ;-).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned works for a university, doesn't he?

fucking xpost

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I wrote a paper at Hampshire explaining why emoticons would be useful for academic writing, and would help prevent many of the response papers that kick off with misunderstanding the tone of the instigating article, or not knowing how to separate literal and metaphoric language. (I'm not defending that now, so shut up.) I so wish I had a copy of it still.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I still never use emoticons ever. I only use those little yellow smileys in iChat because they are dumb and cute, especially the "laugh" and the "angry" ones.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Hampshire Student in writing completely bullshit paper just for the hell of it and submitting it for one of their non-program non-courses SHOCKA.

;)

― Allyzay, Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Was it a Brown professor? I bet it was Brown. Or Harvard.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

On the one hand :(, true to the Western tradition that controls not only in theory, but in practice (in the principle of its practice) the relationships between speech and writing:)), Saussure does not recognise in the latter more than a narrow and derivative function. Narrow because it is nothing but one modality among others;), a modality of the events which can befall:-( a language whose essence, as the facts seem to show, can remain forever uncontaminated by writing:-P “Language does have an oral tradition;)) that is independent of writing” (Cours de linguistique générale):-[ Derivative because representative signifier of the first signifier, representation of the self-present voice:-D , of the immediate, natural, and direct signification of the meaning (of the signified, of the concept, of the ideal object or what have you).8-x

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

My next resumé is going to be formatted as a one-act play

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Hampshire Student in writing completely bullshit paper just for the hell of it and submitting it for one of their non-program non-courses SHOCKA.

That's why I mentioned it! Well, I mean that's why I mentioned that it was Hampshire. (That, and the fact that it means this was like 1994, so professors didn't know what the fuck an emoticon was even when they saw it.)

These days I'd have to write the paper on the European Union's struggle to come up with a non-preferential, standardized set of emoticons.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

we've talked about the theory generator before, right?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned works for a university, doesn't he?

It helps to know the lingo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mindspring.com/~j-smith/anteater.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

That's one more live anteater than UCI has, lemme tell ya.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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