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[delga]

Alright, guys, look: I love you all a crazy amount, even those of you with whom I rarely talk, mostly because I find you all to be brilliant and funny and human and other such awesome things (I sort of love that on my flist I know people who will obssess over shoe-tie co-ordination, and people who can tellme everything I want to know about particle physics).

BUT.

Guys! It's says pictogrammatically challenged for a reason. It took me an embarrassingly long time to work out that \o/ is not someone frowning. Someone else also does something that's like, \(>o<)/ I think? And is basically an elaborate form of \o/? GUYS. THAT'S NOT WHAT I SEE WHEN YOU SHOW ME THESE THINGS.

In that vein, would somebody please, please explain x_x? IT LOOKS LIKE A DEAD PERSON, WTF, GET IT AWAY FROM ME.

I find this to be very stressful. So I'm going to eat pizza and watch Empire Records with my housemates. Flist you later? MAYBE.

Comments

[agentcat47.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what those things mean either, don't worry.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Not exactly worried. More like: perpetually frustrated.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

lolz! <--superfluous zeds, huzzah!

At first I was sort of amused because I was all, hee, I'm an idiot, I can't actually read these things?! And then I was like, LOOK, THIS IS SORT OF RIDCULOUS.

EMPIRE RECORDS WAS NATURALLY AMAZING. !!!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I did see the "pictogrammatically challenged" and wonder what it meant; I never connected it with these typed-people representing emotions. I have trouble enough with anything but the most straight forward smileys, so I can't help with an explanation for "x_x"; it looks like a dead person to me too. The thing I really have trouble with, though, is the acronyms: the number of times I have googled for these things is just not funny. It makes me feel like something of a failure as a geek, too, which is a very bad thing indeed!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

It's not a real phrase, lol. twincy came up with it to describe how bad I am with emoticons.

re: acronyms, I can usually work those out but sometimes I'm left scratching my head.

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

...what the hell does that \o/ thing mean? How could it be an elaborated form of... the latter smiley. Speaking of which, I've always thought the latter was a sort of duh/frustrated/screw-up-your-eyes-because-you-want-to-die kind of thing.

I think x_x is supposed to mean something like cross-eyed, confused, explodey-brained, or something like that? I dunno. I could be very, very wrong.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had to have that one explained to me. It's "yay-arms". The circle is a little man's head, and the strokes are his arms. (We have a variation that I hve named the 'apocalypticon' whereby the little man is covering his head. Like so: /o\). You can give it pompoms, which I sort of hypocritically love: *\o/* I'm still trying to work out way for it to have mini-flags. Also: a traffic person - lo/

\(>o<)/ is basically the same thing, but I obviously never read these things right because when I first saw it I was all, IS THAT A BAT IN A FISHBOWL WITH LEGS? WHAT IS THAT?! I spend a lot of time being confused by anything that isn't a colon and a single parenthesis.

Whatever x_x is, I find it Very Disturbing. !

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

...well, it does kind of look like yay-arms now that I look at it. The pompoms thing is adorable though! I love that..

But there is no way in hell, no way in hell that that other one looks like yay-arms. I mean, it does look a bit like a face - the o looks like a nose, and those...thingies like screwed-up eyes - but if those slashes are arms, then I'll be buggered. I thought they were his ears or something. Besides, he doesn't look very happy. More constipated than anything else, in my opinion.

it's like those pictures of skulls on bottles of poison, or something. Freaky.

[trascendenza]

pictogrammatically challenged

I feel you. It took me months and months to figure out \o/, and I think I only managed that when someone blew it up to a huge font and I stared at it for awhile. I think its almost life-sized proportions helped.

I'm awful, though, because as soon as I figure out what a new thing means I use it all the time.

\(>o<)/ is just awful, though. That's just far too complex for an emoticon to be, EVER.

I miss the good old days of :) and :( and :'(. The only sideways ones that I'm really attached to are o_O and ._. because they really do remind me of faces.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Ha, twincy had to explain to me. I spent AGES staring at it and eventually I was all, "LOOK. WHAT IS THAT THING?" and she was all, "HEE, it's an arm-waving majig!" and I was all "..."

That's just far too complex for an emoticon to be, EVER
Hear, hear! Although when I worked out what it was, I felt this warm glow of triumph, you know? Sort of like when you finally open a jar and it makes that soft popping noise and you know that you've levelled the score to: you, one; jar, MANY.

Sometimes I just say SADFACE because the punctuation is too much to bear. (Um. Drama aside, that's a pathetically true story.)