[MUD-Dev2] Importance of emoting (Was:ArantagainstVanguardreviews and rants)

[McDonald, Stephen]

> On May 2, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Raph Koster wrote:
> > That said, I've been observing this phenomenon with mudspeke for 
> > fifteen years. It's not at all new.
Amanda replied:
> Oh, it predates that.  "Sigh" in particular goes back at 
> least 25 years (early 80s).

Definitely.  Spoken "sigh" was not uncommon around MIT in the early
80's, and it had nothing to do with computer communication.  Of course,
being true geeks, it was sometimes altered to "Sigh squared", or "Sigh
star", (the latter a reference to quantum physics).  I think it's more
of a geek thing than a mud thing.

					Steve McDonald