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i +  EMOTICONS AND ACRONYMS

                  Emoticons

                  During e-mail communication, the people may not be face to face with each other. So, facial
                  expressions cannot be conveyed to others. To overcome this problem, the concept of emoticons
                  was developed. Emoticons represent your facial expressions. The term emoticon is an abbreviation
                  for emotion icon. They help convey your mood to others as well as save typing time.
                  Some commonly used emoticons are:
                    Emoticon            Used For
                                                                     You can also use built-in emoticons for different
                         :)              Happy                       facial expressions. Some of the emoticons are:
                         :(              Sad
                       =O                Surprised
                        :O               Shouting
                        :’(              Crying
                        :D               Laughing
                        :))              Very Happy
                        :@               Angry
                         :I              No Expression
                        |-)              Sleepy
                     (-_-)zzz            Sleeping
                      (=_=)              Tired
                        :$               Embarrassed

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                      The first two emoticons used by their introducer, Scott Fahlman were :-) depicting a smiling
                      face and :-( depicting a sad face.

                  Acronyms

                  An Acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name. It may be in the form
                  of an abbreviation like HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) or more than one letter from some
                  words like COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language).
                  The use of acronyms became popular with the concept of Short Message Service or SMS.
                  Acronyms work like shorthand for Internet users as it saves typing time.

                  Some of the common acronyms used in Internet communication are:
                       Acronym                       Meaning
                         LOL                     Laughing Out Loud

                         CU                      See You
                         CUL8R                   See You Later
                         BTW                     By The Way
                         FAQ                     Frequently Asked Questions
                         K                       OK




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