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I detest Mail!

Coming from Eudora, Mail really is a culture-shock.


Are there no Smileys (Emoticons) in Mail? 😟

Mac OS X (10.6.8), MacPro Early 2008 10GB

Posted on Feb 18, 2012 1:55 PM

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Feb 19, 2012 6:25 PM in response to fane_j

* Emoticons are the biggest attack on literacy since book-burning was invented. Give a teenager to read Swift's Honest Proposal, and he'll say the author was advocating cannibalism. If you then tell him that it was a bitter satire, he'll exclaim indignantly, "But I didn't see any smileys!"…

Great! Only thing is they wouldn't recognize it was satire, even with abundant smileys. Besides, they dont read -- except, maybe, text messages -- so they'd never even get that far. I know whereof I speak.


Actually, you could give that Swift to quite a number of adults who'd have the same reaction.

I detest Mail!

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