I just noticed that people punctuate with things like smiley faces [ :) ] and other facial expressions. Our written language is becoming more sophisticated, maybe.
But also more confusing. My 8th graders asked me once why I was using frowny-faces on the dry erase board. It was because I was giving them a dictionary-style definition--
Frown : ( noun ) an unhappy facial expression, otherwise known as a colon and an opening parenthetical mark.
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