slow clap
The thing I find fascinating about the phrase “slow clap” is that it's used to refer to two different things that are near-opposites in meaning. On the one hand, there's...
Archive for Online Communication
Obscene intensifiers (probably NSFW)
Today's xkcd comic strip shows a graph of frequency of usage, for a variety of adjectives, of the intensifiers “fucking” and “as shit.” It's a cute graph, and some of...
Complimentary close
Quite a while back, I read a story (perhaps in the New Yorker or some such?) in which one character would write letters to another, and would sign off with...
Online laughter
Not long ago, I was chatting online with a friend, and something made me laugh, and I realized I wasn't sure how to type that. I often use heh or...