mikeihde opened this issue on Jun 23, 2011 ยท 19 posts
Miss Nancy posted Thu, 23 June 2011 at 3:55 PM
when users are joking, they use smilies and laugh symbols, in an attempt to overcome one problem involved in communicating via text: "blunting of affect". it's like the old saying: "creativity dies when they have to censor their own speech". if bill or the other experts have to become too careful with their words, what may be the result?