Throwing down the gauntlet (smileyface deleted)

[afuna]

I am going to challenge myself to use no emoticons for one week (<3s excluded, because <3s are not emoticons, they are A WAY OF LIFE).


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I am imagining the next seven days without emoticons. My fingers itch already.

Comments

[phoenix]

Oh, good experiment! IRC does tend to reduce the vocabulary to various combinations of punctuation -- I realised it first after a few weeks on IRC, when I looked back at my recent entries and found every paragraph (at least) contained one, or an asterisked action. Best of luck!