Forum Language, Emotional content and Glyphs.

[AshtonBlack]

Over the last few years on forums I've noticed that to overcome the body language loss we have in normal conversation, internet forum's use of smilies and graphical emoticons has increased.
Could you now imagine the incidence of misunderstanding if we, say, banned the use of them for a week. Doesn't bare thinking about does it?
Anyway, where could this evolving language be going?
As the manipulation of data, video, audio and the like becomes easier with time*, could the ability to have a language which is more information dense, including whole memes in a short amount of relative time, be a possible direction?

Discuss.
















1. Based on Moore's Law and the evolution of the Man Machine Interface.

[Elessarina]

[AshtonBlack]

Honestly, I think this shit up.

[FBM]

Eh...


Hmm....


Ah!!


Wait...

[Svartalf]

Well, to begin with, sarcasm would be much less obvious and humor would all be deadpan since the markers for it would be gone.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I recently proposed to another forum member that we have LED panels installed in our foreheads so we could do smilies IRL. She was dubious.

[Reverend Blair]

I kind of wonder why the lack of body language is considered such a problem on the internet. We've be using written language for a very long time, after all, and it hasn't been much of a problem before.

[Rum]

I kind of wonder why the lack of body language is considered such a problem on the internet. We've be using written language for a very long time, after all, and it hasn't been much of a problem before.

Its the speed and throw away nature of it all though isn't it.

Say 'fuck off' in one context and its a joke, in another you will deeply offend someone or get them mad. Irony and sarcasm are hard by nature to interpret. Why have smilies for them because we need them.

So fuck off.

[Feck]

I think we get better at reading between the lines as we get to know each other better .. you just have to run the text through a filter and interpret the results .

[Bella Fortuna]

I think we get better at reading between the lines as we get to know each other better .. you just have to run the text through a filter and interpret the results .

And then you still post a lot of

[Deep Sea Isopod]

.

[Feck]

I think we get better at reading between the lines as we get to know each other better .. you just have to run the text through a filter and interpret the results .

And then you still post a lot of

[Trolldor]

*snip*

Smilies are inadequate as it is, not to mention the proclivity for people to insist in interpreting words outside of what the author intended not just on the internet but in the real world as well.

All this 'IT' education in schools is going about it the wrong way. It shouldn't be 'respect other people', it should be 'the internet has a userbase in the billions, don't post personal information you don't want someone to find, and don't take anyone seriously. You will be insulted, you will be slighted, you will be harrassed. Ignore it.'

[Berthold]

We've be using written language for a very long time, after all, and it hasn't been much of a problem before.

Not much of a problem? Consider holy scriptures.

[Feck]

And jesus was angry at the money changers :I-love-pork: he tipped over their tables and they rose up against him but he said WTF
are you doing in the house of god You are doing things !!!!!