[Fwd: Re: Fw: Emoticons/smileys in Word]

[Nancy Elliott]

If I type "special" followed by a return, MS Office automatically turns it
into "Special Delivery." I have to watch carefully, because there are all
kinds of surprises like that.  Hitting <control z> immediately after the
auto-format will undo it (on a Mac, at least). That's the easy way to fix
the capital-small i problem.

Nancy

> From: "D. Ezra Johnson" <ezra_50 at HOTMAIL.COM>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 16:18:32 -0500
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Fw: Emoticons/smileys in Word]

>
> To my mind, more troubling than the replacement of :) by a true smiley is
> the replacement of lowercase i by capital I, even when enclosed in brackets
> as a phonetic symbol. This one can't be fixed by a backspace, since it
> doesn't appear until a forward space. You have to fool it by typing [ii] or
> something, and then going back and removing one of the characters.
>
> D
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