Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.55.0307192039540.5176@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: LOL
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:40:03 -0400 (EDT)
LOL LOL lots of love to you and you and you! and wonderful day for you and you and you! LOL laugh out loud at you and you and you! laugh and laugh out loud! They say you can't trace what you feel When you're faced with little signs But I think they're like the eel Slithering among the mines Avoiding each with fin and tooth From head to toe to grave It's like the butterfly, forsooth, Dancing in a rave. But seriously, folks, do these acronyms really work? More and more our children are faced with 160 character screens and no place to spell out more than abbreviated feelings. Which as Freud says, sticks emotion to the symbol. The result is the atrophy of emotions, a neutral or darkly plain face, perhaps with sunglasses, staring out uncomprehending the world. What to do? Remember, the greater the screen size, the more delicate the emotion: The whole world is our screen! Our emotions fill the skies! Let us at least use L1 for LOL and L2 for LOL and we will be able, once and for all, to differentiate between love and laughter! ___