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emoticons  

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  • Emoticons (a contraction of the words “emotional icons”) are glyphs used in computer-mediated communications, meant to represent facial expressions. When the Internet was entirely text-based, emoticons were rendered in ASCII, and read by tilting one's head to the left, as the “smiley” indicates :-). [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Emoticons]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-K43FQ3NS-6

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