Thesis headquarters  CHATROOM EMOTICONS/ASSICONS and acronyms or abbreviations and/or also Known as Chat Acronyms and E-mail Shorthand, these "abbreviations" are also used in Newsgroup Postings and IRC. A smiley is a sequence of characters on your computer keyboard. If you don't see it, try tilting your head to the left -- the colon represents the eyes, the dash represents the nose and the right parenthesis represents the mouth. Smileys usually follow after the punctuation (or in place of the punctuation) at the end of a sentence. A smiley [ :) = J : (= L ] tells someone what you really mean when you make an offhand remark. They are also called emoticons because they intend to convey emotion!

                         

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table 1 emoticons. 1

Table 2 emoticons. 5

Table 3 emoticons. 7

Table 4 assicons. 38

Abbreviations. 38

Abbreviations 2. 39

 

·        A GLOSSARY OF COMPUTER ORIENTED ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

·        Jargon File - This document is a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers

·        Word list for Internet Acronyms & Lingo

·        TERRELL_WEB search engine for PhD and etc.

·        Domain name registries around the world

·       ONLINE JOURNALS which discuss chatrooms and virtual communities

OTHER SITES WHICH HAVE UPDATED EMOTICONS AND ABREVIATIONS (ONLINE STILL AS OF Tuesday, 12 February 2002):

ü      Netguides emoticons: http://www.indbazaar.com/netguide/index1.asp?catid=7

ü      helwig's smiley dictionary http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~helwig/smileys.html

ü      http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/chat.html

table 1 emoticons

commonly used emoticons

Creatively used emoticons

for the silly at heart

Many more of this type are available at:

http://www.chatropolis.com/emoticons.html

:(   = frown

(_)? [_]?  = coffee or tea

.-)            Person who can still smile despite losing an eyeball

=|:-)  Abe Lincoln

:'(  = crying

(_8(|)  = Homer Simpson

:-(            Sad person with a nose

=|:-)= Abe Lincoln

:( L a sad face. this too has variations of despair that can be added such as :(~~ for crying and :P~~ giving someone the raspberry

*S*  = Variation of Smile

:(              Person who is sad because he or she has a large fish for a nose

|-[#] About to explode

:-)  = smile (with a nose)

:-&  = tongue-tied

:---(          Person who is sad because he or she has a large nose

>-< Absolutely livid

:) J a smiley face denotes that you are joking or happy. there are many variations on this such as :-) ;-) :0 so keep smiling

^5 high five and means you're congratulating someone on a comment they

:-{8          Person who is unhappy with the results of her breast-enlargement surgery

:%) Accountant

{{{{{{{ }}}}}}}  = lots of hugs

0:) an angel...

:-|             Person unsure of which long-distance company to choose

d:-p  Adolescent

{{{{{{}}}}}} cyberhugs. {{{{{Terrell}}}}}}}

c[[]] =  a pint of beer

:-0WW   Person vomiting a series of Slim Jims

:=( Adolf Hitler

{}  = a hug

}:>  = devil

:-D           Person laughing

:-=( Adolf Hitler

<bfg> big freaking grin (big fucking grin)

<------  = referring to yourself

:-D*        Person laughing so hard that he or she does not notice that a 5-legged spider is hanging from his or her lip

:-\ 8o  After a cold shower

<eg>  = evil grin

:*   = kiss

:-Q           Person who just had cybersex and is now enjoying a post-coital cybercigarette

:-{ -__-: After slamming the toilet seat

<eg> evil grin

:-|  = grim face

:V:-|         Person who cannot figure out why nobody wants to talk to him or her, little suspecting that there is an alligator on his or her head

:-o ^^^^: After zipping up fly too fast

<g>  = grin

:D = smile/laughing/big grin

;-)            Person winking

#:-0 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

<g> is a grin and to make it a bigger one, use a capital g.

:o#) =  man with a moustache

~oE]:-|                 Fisherperson heading for market with a basket on his or her head containing a three-legged octopus that is giving off smell rays

V(8-| Air Force pilot

<gag> <choke> <hack> <cough>

:o) = another smile

>:-[ -{9    Person who is none too pleased to be giving birth to a squirrel

=|:-) Abe Lincoln

<giggle> <tee hee>

:P  = sticking out tongue

>:-Q -...   Person who was enjoying a post-coital cigarette until he suddenly noticed, to his alarm, that there is some kind of discharge dribbling from his cybermember

=|:-)= Abe Lincoln

<S>  = Big Smile

:-P =  sticking out tongue

>8-O-(&)                 Person just realizing that he or she has a tapeworm

|-[#] About to explode

<s>  = Smile

:X  = my lips are sealed

.-)            Person who can still smile despite losing an eyeball

>-< Absolutely livid

<S> a huge smile

;)  = wink

:-(            Sad person with a nose

:%) Accountant

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