{ aie. MY BRAINZ. }

[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

[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.