- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:06:33 -0500 (EST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
to follow up on what Gregg Vanderheiden said: > > GV:: What does complice smile mean? AG:: There are dictionaries for smileys already -- we don't need to define the dictionary here, just use it. -- Al PS (Linguistic backtrace): "Complice smile" means "the trigram semicolon, hyphen, close-parenthesis" ;-) which means "a smile delivered with a [conspiratorial] wink." The semantics of a smile delivered with a wink is that the speaker is alluding to some private knowledge unarticulated in the message but shared between the speaker and her [ac]complice. It signals a condition of complic[ity] existing between speaker and hearer. Ergo "complice smile." QED.
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