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Development of languages, language families, etc, through time with influences by other languages or pre-existing ones.
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Should emoticons be considered punctuation?
Following on from my previous question Are "txt-speak" and "emoticons" examples of normal language evolution? …
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Are "txt-speak" and "emoticons" examples of normal language evolution?
emoticons could be seen as a return to "picture-words" and "txt-speak" a return to phonetic spellings, is there anything other than the medium they grew from that would separate these from normal language evolution …