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表情符号:一颦一笑皆传情 　　不知从何时起，网络上文字消息的传送总少不了表情符号的陪伴。从最初标点符号的简单组合到后来千姿百态的动态表情，表情符号在“看不见”的网络聊天中充当了我们的情绪传递员。表情符号不断发展，功能日趋强大，但我们不禁要问：习惯了用符号传情达意的一代还能自如地面对面交流吗？ You use them to take the edge off2） a joke. Lovebirds use them to playfully flirt. Sometimes you need more than just words， and nothing else but a wink will do. Theyre emoticons， and after 30 years， theyre still changing the way we communicate―even more than you think. When you want to share straightforward ideas， simple punctuations do the job. When you want to subtly ask a favor or send a coy3） quip4）， you need emoticons， or emotional icons， to add nuance to your words. The smiley5） and its descendants are woven into the fabric of our culture―and changing the way we work and play. The Emoticon Through History Many consider Scott Elliott Fahlman， a professor at Carnegie Mellon University， the inventor of the modern-day emoticon. On September 19， 1982， he sent an e-mail to students， asking them to use symbols to show their intended tone. “I propose the following character sequence for joke markers： ：-） Read it sideways，” he said， adding to use “：-（” to show more serious messages. But that symbol quickly evolved to mean displeasure， frustration or anger. The impulse to show emotional intent with a simple symbol， however， dates back even further. In 1969， Vladimir Nabokov， author of Lolita， foreshadowed the modern symbol. When asked to rank himself among writers， he said， “I often think there should exist a special typographical6） sign for a smile―some sort of concave7） mark， a supine8） round bracket， which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.” Abraham Lincoln may have even used it， back in one of his speeches from 1862. The New York Times reported on a sideways “winky face” after the word “laughter” typed into his speech. This sparked a debate on whether the smiley was a grammatical notation from the time， an early emoticon attempt or simply a typo9）. He probably tried to write “==|；o）.”