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Sending a Text Message
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As with English, Koreans like to use shortcuts and emoticons when sending a
text message. Shortcuts help to minimize the number of characters used such
as ‘u’ = you in English. An emoticon is a character or collection of characters
that show some sort of emotion, and is useful for replacing some aspect of the
communication that would normally be conveyed through body language.
Koreans use them so much that a recent study showed that when text
messages did not include any emoticons, the recipient thought the sender was
angry (>._< angry
(16) >.< angry