Email conventions seeping into handwriting

[Johanna N Franklin]

    I have seen emoticons, mainly the :) emoticon, being written.

    And I know someone who, upon, realizing that someone is teasing him,
will say "colon p" - the appropriate emoticon to use in that situation.
:P

    Johanna Franklin

Excerpts from mail: 2-Aug-99 Email conventions seeping i.. by Erin
McKean at VERBATIMMAG.
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>Anyone else noticing email conventions (like emoticons) dribbling into
>handwriting or typescript? You don't have to admit it if you've done it. I
>can carry my shame alone.