I should be thinking up a blog, for my wordpress this morning, but I'm drawing a blank there. So, I come to post a blog all about nothing here. lol. Mostly, more explanations about myself to quell my worries of being annoying to others. ;^_^
I'm big on using emoticons... well, it's more of a force of habit. I was introduced to the internet at age 15, many millions of years ago, when the dinosaur roamed (or so that's how my nephews see it, lol). And the first time someone used :-), I asked, "What that mean?" (bad grammar and all). And the response was, "turn your head to the side." And I replied, "oooohhhh yeahhh." in wonder and awe. Every since then, my sentences online became punctuated with emoticons.
And then, I got into anime and found out about Japanese emotes on the otaku forums! Waaah!!! I had to learn them all! ^o^
Later, I found out that non-otaku or anime fans didn't understand the Japanese emotes, so I had to switch from Japanese to Western ones (yee-haw!), in order to be understood. It never occurred to me to drop the emotes completely, because how else is a person to know that I'm smiling or frowning without them?! o_o
Besides writing out, "I am smiling" or "I am frowning". I'm much too lazy for that. ;^_^
But then how are the cowboys suppose to know that I am shocked or have a tear-drop expression without understanding Japanese emotes! I have to explain that I am embarrassed or wide eyed at the moment in words??? Well, yeah... I do. :-p
So, it all resulted in a mixture of Japanese and Western emote-speak that I have to honestly repress in novels that I write and serious blog posts. And that's hard, so I love my backspace button! It's automatic (and comfortable) for me to emote at the end of a sentence or paragraph, ensuring that the reader can't twist the meaning of my words to be other than what I meant it to be. It's easier for me to express myself in person, as I talk with my hands and do funny facial expressions. ^_^
I do try to limit the amount of emotes I use, because at my worse, there is an emoticon after every period in a sentence. At my best, my face remains blank for a whole paragraph or for half of an article. Not to be confused with this anime blank face: -_-
I mean no emotes in sight!
Thanks for reading.
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My favorite emoji would have to be the teardrop one with rubbing one's head: (;^_^)>
I do that a lot, in reality. LOL!
But that other emoji of "what's going on with this one?", I think that's "facepalm"!!! An expression of pure frustration of, "Ai yi! I can't believe this idiot!!!" XD
Hey, I tried the singing emoji earlier... it didn't work for me. Though, it was a bit different more arms to it. And yes, Japanese do use a mix of romaji so it's odd to me that your were cyber bullied about your use of it. o_O
Or maybe that's my experience with Otaku, who often use both. ^_^
Most people are okay about romaji, but now and then I'm teased with things like, 'if you can't read kanji, then you don't know Japanese' or the guy I mentioned who messaged me to ask, how people would know the difference between words that sound the same.. I was going to join a Japanese chat room, because I thought it would be great practice. Then I read all the flaming -really aggressive, on the home page of the romaji chat, that I decided not to. People said some pretty hurtful things about those who just want to be able to chat in the language and not study it like something dead on a table...
Yikes! That's awful! :-(
Yeah, I may never learn to read kanji, though I may just learn the romiji and how to speak it. I think that's an odd attitude to have about the language, sorta like saying, "if you can't read cursive writing, then you don't know English!" LOL! I do know cursive, and can read calligraphy too, but I wouldn't say that those who don't know how to read or write it lack skills in English. I hate that elitist attitude to things, the "you can't be this or know that, unless you walk this way only!" o_O