I'm guilty of putting smileys in almost all my emails, even if they are work-related emails. But I'm generally a smiley person, anyway. : )
---- Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > I use it more than I used to, and only use it in email, FWIW - but that's > more work-related than medium-related. For my work communications, any > interactive client-communication would have more exclamation points in it > than a story, proposal, training document, etc. The reason is precisely that > given on page 1: email is a flat medium -- it's more of a substitute for > phone calls than letters, and so it needs something to stand in for facial > gestures and speech tone. In informal emails, we have emoticons and > interrobangs, but those don't fly so well in business settings as yet -- so > all we have left is the exclamation point. > > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Alicia Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/**07/03/fashion/exclamation-** > > points-and-e-mails-cultural-**studies.html?nl=**todaysheadlines&emc=tha26<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/fashion/exclamation-points-and-e-mails-cultural-studies.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26> > > > > While we're talking about punctuation, here's an interesting article about > > how email and texting has changed the use of the exclamation point, "the > > literary equivalent to canned applause." > > > > Alicia > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to r-spec+unsubscribe@** > > googlegroups.com <r-spec%[email protected]>. > > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > > group/r-spec?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en>. > > > > > > > -- > -- > eric scoles | [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
