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Nabokov's interview. The New York Times [1969] -- How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past? -- I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.
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Wow, that's a lot of downvotes. Mind telling me why?
Well first, that's not an expression that anyone uses. If there is one, it's the opposite of that. Also, your interpretation of that is incorrect. Putting something on a pedestal is bad. It's pretending that it's perfect. If you put a person on a pedestal, you remove their humanity and flaws and aren't treating them like a person.
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My biggest problem with this is when the images auto-replacing your text emotes convey a completely different expression, and you have no control over it. Skype is the worst offender, where for example the ":3" cat-face gets replaced by an image of a whole cat, without a face at all. If you disable this "feature" in your options, it's only disabled on YOUR end. The receiving client will still convert your text into i…
Try sending a code snippet in any modern chat
Triple backticks also works in WhatsApp.
It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol' ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There's something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph. I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened. Tangentially-related, I can't fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.
Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.
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Well first, that's not an expression that anyone uses. If there is one, it's the opposite of that. Also, your interpretation of that is incorrect. Putting something on a pedestal is bad. It's pretending that it's perfect. If you put a person on a pedestal, you remove their humanity and flaws and aren't treating them like a person.
Thanks for the insights, I've must have understood the expression differently. I did find references to the contrary like [1] where the interpretation I've always had is expressed. Why are you so certain? [1] http://www.city-data.com/forum/relationships/1064051-what-do...
love birds (@>
$ apt moo
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(oo)
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* /\---/\
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..."Have you mooed today?"...It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol' ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There's something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph. I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened. Tangentially-related, I can't fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.
My workaround is a nose :^)
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The worst is if you are trying to do a letter-indexed list of items and B) gets coverted to a guy with sunglasses.
J
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Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.
Kyle McLaughlan explains a former project: https://ello.co/codenamesarah/post/s9dx9cx_iw6ytktbugjwmq