emoticone.info (Smileys with French pronunciation)

Domain Name: Emoticone.info
Registrar: Directi
Expiration Date: 18-Sep-2007
Starting Bid: 210 Euro
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Auction Ends: Mar/02/07 04:56 AM EST
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emoticone is the french pronunciation of emoticon
Check here for English ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon )
and here for French info regarding emoticon ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticones )

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An emoticon (pronounced (IPA) [i?mo?t?k?n]), also called a smiley, is a sequence of ordinary printable characters, such as "", "^_^", "._.", "XD", "-_-", "=D", "", "=P", "o_o", etc, or a small image, intended to represent a human facial expression and convey an emotion. Emoticons are a form of paralanguage commonly used as extended interpunction symbols in e-mail, instant messaging, online chat, bulletin boards, and Internet forums; without them, users believe that simple statements could be misinterpreted due to the lack of facial expression, body language, and vocal intonation in purely written communications.

Often a smile is represented with a basic smiley . The colon represents the eyes, the hyphen is for the nose, and the parenthesis for the mouth. Many variants exist with different symbols substituted for the basic ones. The symbol for the nose is often omitted, for example or . When the colon is replaced with the equals sign, =), the nose is almost always omitted (so one would not see =-), for example). This is also used to make figures, objects and animals

Etymology
The word "emoticon" is, according to popular etymology, a blend of "emotion" and "icon". A similar word, "verticon" (from "vertical" and "icon"), is sometimes used when referring to the East Asian style of emoticon (i.e., the symbols represent a face that is vertically, rather than horizontally oriented). Manus Hand claims to have invented the term[5], however he does not document this assertion. On 19 September 1982, Scott Fahlman (now a Principal Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University) devised a scheme for encoding and conveying one's feelings in small text "glyphs" to overcome this frustration.

Proto-emoticons
The earliest known non-ASCII emoticons were used in the PLATO IV program as early as 1972, which allowed users to type multiple text characters on top of each other. Many combinations of ordinary text characters were known to produce face-like patterns, which were used as emoticons.

 

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