Email conventions seeping into handwriting

[Victoria Neufeldt]

Please, WHAT does ':P' mean?

Victoria (who has never yet - blush - used an emoticon in her e-mails)

Victoria Neufeldt, Merriam-Webster, Inc.
47 Federal Street, P.O. Box 281
Springfield, MA  01102
Tel. (413) 734-3134 ext 124
Fax  (413) 827-7262

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Johanna N Franklin
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 7:26 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Email conventions seeping into handwriting
>
>
>     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.
> >
> >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.
>