Is there a consensus on the grammatical relationship between emoticons and punctuation? [more inside]
posted by mkultra on Apr 8, 2008 - 37 answers

Do you know any new industry-specific emoticons used in business settings? I'm looking for ASCII style, not animated. [more inside]
posted by faunafrailty on Sep 14, 2007 - 3 answers

I just realized (I'm fairly slow that way) that suddenly, and without fanfare, every language on Earth, excepting North-Korean and maybe a smattering of others, has acquired mood punctuation i.e. emoticons. Much like a ? indicates that the preceding sentence was a question, a jocular sentence is marked with a :)
Now, here comes my question. Are there any languages that have mood punctuation that pre-exists the internet? Or something similar? Markings that indicate a mood, feeling or emotion in any way? [more inside]
posted by Kattullus on Aug 4, 2006 - 21 answers