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This easy guide shows using punctuation
to convey emotion through writing
How do figures communicate with each other? Think there's little way of expressing yourself
truly, online or in written form?
Surprisingly, there are a lot of common tools available, making
literary relating an advantage. Here's some emotional faces of these
most common smiley figures on their sides:
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A Basic
General Knowledge
Showing Literary
Emotion
with Punctuation
Electronically
by Ruth Collis
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happy |
:) |
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sad |
:( |
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wink |
;) |
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angry |
>:( |
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devious |
>:) |
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wicked |
>:D |
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worried |
<:| |
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silly |
:P |
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excited |
:D |
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ho-hum |
:| |
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cats |
>^..^< |
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goatee |
}:)>> |
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Example:
"Hey man, I'm so glad
someone at work finally relates with me. :) I get tired of everyone
disappearing when I just mention the word "email". :(
Sister called me up today
in a frantic mess <:| to get this online application to
print... dam thing, >:( for an important interview tomorrow.
:D Good thing a simple "select, copy & paste" into an email or
Word document worked to print then! >:) haha
(No, I didn't "copy" any copyrighted pictures for reference even!)
>:D
Found this cat signature
on an internet message board that someone so cleverly made.
>^..^< Try typing that one fast 3 times!! :P
tee-hee
Now there's no excuse
:| for saying "There's hardly any way to fully communicate
through writing," with all THIS expression available. Hell, I can almost
see the other person's face right in front of me! }:)>>
muahhhhhhh!
~ Ruth Collis
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Also, punctuation in itself can get points
across quite clear...
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Caps |
All capital letters can be used for a specific EMPHASIS in explaining. (BE
CAREFUL THAT ALL CAPS AREN'T USED FOR THE ENTIRE PARAGRAPH, OR IT
WILL COME ACROSS AS SHOUTING AND/OR LAZINESS TO PUNCTUATE RIGHT.)
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Bold |
Bold-emphasis works good for titles like above, Showing Literary
Emotion with Punctuation.
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Size |
Altering the size of text will also add emphasis for a headline to be seen.
This sentence you're reading right here is 10 point size. The next sentence
in the middle is 24 point size:
How to show emotion through writing!
...or even small enough to be felt as a whisper, like a secret (at 8
points).
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Italics |
Italics are used to draw attention to a particular
part of text, used on titles of books, poems, newspapers, magazines,
movies, plays, songs, names, or to tell a caption of someone's words, like
below. By the way, here is a type/font sizing
secret you can use on many web pages
you might come across:
"Ever notice some words are too small to read on some internet pages? You
can resize the type on a webpage most of the time to either enlarge it to
where you can read it, or shrink words down smaller to where you can get a
better perspective, by holding down the Control key (PC) on the
keyboard, or Command key (Mac), & scroll your mouse at the same time.
This will instantly resize the page to however you need it to look.
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Font |
The style, shape, or design
of letters, shows the face of what is said, like observing what a person's
exterior, or physical body looks like.
The
Emotion
font's name above is "Bradley
Hand ITC". Difference font styles convey different emotions. At FontGarden.com
where you can view
other
people's handwritings, or also
turn your own handwriting into a font or even
make money if you agree to sell your font.
However, not all people's browsers support your particular font other than
the standard ones that come with your computer, resulting in whatever font
showing up that the computer replaces it with, if using online; but can be
good for letter writing to then print.
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Content |
What you actually say when you write, is the underlying
person that speaks.
Toccara, a contestant on the 2004 America's Next Top Model TV show says
with a smile:
"
I'm 180 pounds, I'm gonna be America's first black, plus-size model, and I'm
fabulous!! "
("Christine"
font style)
You can make your inner radiance shine confidently through content.
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Punctuation |
Exclamations,
tells a personality. Although, used altogether in the other extreme, comes
across as @#&*!! cursing. Using a curse word every other sentence, has
the same distaste as mentioning a religious deity in your speech just as
often, and also the Valley Girl way speech: "Like, I mean,
for like sure, this is like totally cool !!" Exclamations are best
used sparingly and to make a point.
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Highlighting |
Highlighting is used to draw quick
attention in long periods of text to catch the readers' eye, used
mostly on sites that give a long "sales pitch" before their product to get you to
buy, where there's so much mesmerizing information, they have to find a way
to make their content simple, and often
highlighting the main points is done.
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Underline |
Underlining can be found in writing of book
titles, used as more emphasis, or in hyperlinks.
There is truly a way to communicate through
written form with all this written form of expression available.
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Here's the man who invented the smiley for use in writing on message boards, way
back in 1982:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm
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