I didn't know that there was a language-barrier with smileys. Interesting.
I think so, too. As far as the English-speaking internet goes, they're mostly used in the Manga/Anime community, I think. But sometimes I see people use them on livejournal or journalfen, and I always wondered what they mean (but felt stupid asking).
Makes sense, too, that the Japanese would have more varied emoticons, considering the language is much more nuanced than English (not to mention German).
I understood about 3/4 of the "hacker story" and that was enough to get a good laugh.
Your German must be seriously good if you understood that much. Because, that was some awful, awful language. Not just colloquial, but grammatically oh so very wrong. And the typos. And the gutterspeak. *shudder*
The commenter who kept getting his link changed was great too. :-D You mean the guy who kept trying to post http://*SCHNIPPS*? ;o) Priceless.
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I think so, too. As far as the English-speaking internet goes, they're mostly used in the Manga/Anime community, I think. But sometimes I see people use them on livejournal or journalfen, and I always wondered what they mean (but felt stupid asking).
Makes sense, too, that the Japanese would have more varied emoticons, considering the language is much more nuanced than English (not to mention German).
I understood about 3/4 of the "hacker story" and that was enough to get a good laugh.
Your German must be seriously good if you understood that much. Because, that was some awful, awful language. Not just colloquial, but grammatically oh so very wrong. And the typos. And the gutterspeak. *shudder*
The commenter who kept getting his link changed was great too. :-D
You mean the guy who kept trying to post http://*SCHNIPPS*? ;o) Priceless.
In conclusion: Yummy Sushi!
Very much so.