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emoticon
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/eemohtikon/ , n. [common] An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional
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state in email or news. Although originally intended mostly as jokes,
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emoticons (or some other explicit humor indication) are virtually required
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under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication such
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as chat systems. The original invention of emoticons happened on the
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PLATO IV education system in 1972. Also see emoji. |