The use of Smilies.
I am hoping this thread helps member to write comments without causing offence. It really is imperative that all writers understand the important use of smilies.
When reading a comment a person cannot interpret the mood of the writer like he could if face to face with the person making the comment. The reason for the use of Smilies is to help the writer to convey his or her feelings in the writing.
An example of what I mean is found in one of the recent threads. Where a member called another, “Viva Irreverence”.
(A word not found in any dictionary that I’ve checked) Now to look at that word one assumes it doesn’t mean much, in actual fact the two words have no connection. Viva means in Latin, “with the living voice”. Irreverence is the insulting word behind the comment, and in the Thesaurus has 23 definitions, all of them insulting. Now if the person making the comment had put a winking smilie
after the invented word then the recipient may not have been be so insulted.
Sometimes I wish I had more than five smilies to play with.
Incidentally I cannot incorporate the thumbs up smilie, to my mind a very important one.