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RE: WOX: Why I Choose This Community
hope that it isn’t Covid
Feel not bad, like someone who is almost well... 🙂 Still keep myself in the warm conditions, no walks, no meetings.
Your mushroom 🍄 and berry photos make me want to visit St Petersburg so we can go foraging together!
I hope once. 😎 You are always welcome.
The English summer here this year though was the very opposite, rainy
Probably, too much water in the ocean clouds - the hot weather... So they spilled all on the way from the Atlantic to Russia. Like a beer drinker with too much beer in the stomach, the same principle... This is my theory ... 🙂
It’s good to know that you’re recovering ❤️🩹 @datych! It’s a shame indeed to miss on being out and about while it’s still summer..It already started getting dark earlier, I bet you noticed ☝️and Christmas 🎄 started being mentioned more often. Time flies and it’s all fine as long as we are safe and not feeling under the weather!
On a separate note 📝 I do like the cute emojis you included in your reply to my comment 💁♀️
Yes, emojis. Probably, your influence on me 🙂
Summer and cute autumn ... Then ... a dark abyss.
Thought 💭 so about the emojis @datych so I’m glad you said it! I think they are fun and add some colourful highlights to the text. Like makeup 🎨Best not to have too much of☝️
There are two explanations actually.
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Normally, we write in Russian using ")" to show friendliness and moderate smile. Like:
Hey) How was you your day? )
Using more brackets )), ))), )))))) shows smiles and laughter.
I read Westerners and Asians and etc don't understand it, only ex-Soviet nations. So I started to use ":)" instead. But this is totally different meaning.
Hey :) How was you your day? :)
This one is annoying already in most cases. It is like I am high or want to sell something. This especially uncomfortable on steemit bc extra smiles sound like begging.
Emojis are clearer than brackets like ) or :---) and ;) and ^).
--2--
But what about typing without emojis and smiles at all? Talking to different social layers of different nations makes communication more complicated. As soon as you are away from small talks like "the weather is fine" and "your images are nice", people have troubles with understanding, understanding the context.
Too many cases when people didn't understand that I was kidding or was sarcastic or I meant "it was obvious". Nothing is obvious when you talk to an old guy living 20000km away and believing in woodoo. So use a banner "sarcasm" when you are sarcastic this is why I decided to use emojis.
When I meet open-minded experienced travelers with liberal ideas I have no communication troubles of this type. Steemit is different.
😱I didn’t have a clue that just brackets can stand for smiles and laughter @datych!
Some people are also easily confused by emojis as they tend to overthink what their exact meaning is.
How about writing ✍️ in emojis only? The photo is of a picture sheet we sometimes get when quizzing. The emojis featured here had to be decoded to well-known film titles.