Internet's Influence on Grammar

[silvertone]

Is the emoticon placed before the period or after the period?
For Example: Is It

"Get that Jive away from here  ."

or

"Get that Jive Away from here.  "

just something for you all, felt in particular, to think about.

[Andria]

It's the internet who uses periods

[PLEASEHELP1991]

second option looks more natural as the emotion is already conveyed in that phrase. but it's really a matter of style and up to you

[don't let's]

Boyah actually broke my habit of always using punctuation

[silvertone]

It's the internet who uses periods

truly curious...

[snoorkel]

in the case of Doodthing, the proper placement would be outside of the punctuation as a standalone element, since His Doodthingness should not be placed in spaces of condescension to words and concepts of ordinary meaning. His emotion supersedes that conveyed by language

[silvertone]

second option looks more natural as the emotion is already conveyed in that phrase. but it's really a matter of style and up to you

Is this the Fall of Grammar Fascism? Freedom of the people to produce sentences anyway they want? This is barbarous anarchy!!

[silvertone]

in the case of Doodthing, the proper placement would be outside of the punctuation as a standalone element, since His Doodthingness should not be placed in spaces of condescension to words and concepts of ordinary meaning. His emotion supersedes that of language

I meant about emotion in general, but the specifications are appreciated.

[PLEASEHELP1991]

Is this the Fall of Grammar Fascism? Freedom of the people to produce sentences anyway they want? This is barbarous anarchy!!

essentially language is anarchy

[silvertone]

essentially language is anarchy

all societies are based on anarchy, but we have grown beyond demented and low-level thinking to create organized cultures. this includes grammar.

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

I always used the emoticon as the period.

[bluaki]

I've never seen people use emotes before punctuation and I don't think it fits well to do so. Sometimes the presence of an emote functions as replacing the punctuation, but if it doesn't, it should always follow the period.

Then again, I also disagree with the commonly-accepted and not entirely irrelevant practice of moving punctuation that belongs outside a set of quotes inside just before the closing quotation marks.

[snoorkel]

I meant about emotion in general, but the specifications are appreciated.

i think, then, it is a question for the Aestheticist and not for the Linguist. it depends on the exact nature and graphickal character of the image.

[silvertone]

i think, then, it is a question for the Aestheticist and not for the Linguist. it depends on the exact nature and graphickal character of the image.

so it depends on the Person?

I've never seen people use emotes before punctuation and I don't think it fits well to do so. Sometimes the presence of an emote functions as replacing the punctuation, but if it doesn't, it should always follow the period.

Then again, I also disagree with the commonly-accepted and not entirely irrelevant practice of moving punctuation that belongs outside a set of quotes inside just before the closing quotation marks.

When the novelists get over themselves and start speaking like normal human beings, which in turn causes them to utilize emoticons, how will they place these quasi-images representing emotion that will fit within the American Standards of grammar? Is there no real law?

[PLEASEHELP1991]

modern novelists like jerom repudiate the beat generation