Email
occupied a confusing middle ground between the premeditation of a letter and
the expressiveness of a phone call. To compensate for the absence of verbal
intonation in email, early users of message boards used ‘emoticons’ and
‘smileys’ to denote things like ‘only joking’ and ‘happy,’ and acronyms such as
LOL (laugh out loud, sometimes embarrassingly mistaken for ‘lots of love’).
... I
must conclude, with a heavy heart, that the prime minister is not one of my
regular readers.
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