Yay anachronisms

[inthecenterfold]

[[OOC: The handwriting is more scrawl than normal due to slight aggravation]]

Okay so I've seen all kinds of weird symbols now that people keep using and it's kind of bugging me.
:)
:P
^_^
Those aren't letters! What the heck are they?

Comments

[lemonshine.livejournal.com]

They're ways of displaying emotions on paper. :)

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

So they're words?

[lemonshine.livejournal.com]

Not at all! You're using little pictures instead of words.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

:P is a picture? It looks like-

Wait...

[[writing is sideways now, same side up as :P ]]
Am I supposed to look at it this way?

[lemonshine.livejournal.com]

[she writes the smilies in as they're supposed to look.]

Does that help? But if you look at them sideways like Brooklyn said, it should be easier to visualise.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

Okay at the risk of sounding completely stupid...

What the hell does visualize mean?

[lemonshine.livejournal.com]

Oh! To see something as it is described. It's all about using your imagination!

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

So to visualize is to use your imagination? To make stuff up?

[lemonshine.livejournal.com]

It's like when you read something in a book and you can see what the person is describing in your mind. ^^

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

And that ^^ thing... is just two eyes?

[lemonshine.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.

[inthecenterfold.livejournal.com]

... It's still kinda weird you know.