Sunday, October 4, 2009

gestures can translate to the online world

Some people think it is hard to translate off-line gestures to on-line. However, I think it is possible to translate some expressions and gestures to on-line as well, especially facial expressions.
For example, as many students said before, we can express happy feelings with :D, :), ^0^, >_<, *^^*, o(^.^)o, ^3^or ↖(^0^)↗(they created hands and arms, too!). We can also express sad feelings with T_T or ㅠㅠ (Korean). To express "frustrated" feeling, we use OTL (It looks like a person is depressed and knocked out. O is a head, T is body and arm, and L is his leg.) in Korea. In addition, if you see something that doesn't make sense, you can use -_- or . People who use the Internet created a lot of "written facial expressions" to transmit their feelings to other people.

For fun, I will show you the dancing of characters (but I'm not sure whether you can see Korean characters on your computer) It seems like they are shaking, or dancing, isn't it? :)
" 후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸
후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸
후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸후루꾸"
People even created the motion of characters.

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