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Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. Welcome to another summer mini-cast from Away with Words. This week we've got a call about

Smilies or Emodecons. You know that's in an email when you use a colon and a capital letter P to make a sideways face sticking

out its tongue.

Well, Michael called us wanting to know, first of all, if there was a name on the order of

noun, verb, adjective, and so forth that would apply to

emoticons used his language. But he also wanted to know, how in the world do you punctuate

them when you put them at the end of a sentence?

Hello, you have a way with words.

Hello, Martha. Hello, Grant.

This is Michael from Oklahoma City.

Well, hello Michael in Oklahoma City.

What I called about today was, in relation to emoticons.

I had a, I think while I was in school a couple of years ago where my friend and I sort of talking about what a modicons were

and how they would be used.

And so we kind of got into a debate to whether or not aotocons should be used as words and then punctuated

afterwards like it becomes at the end of a sentence or if they replace the punctuation.

So I came up with the concept that I think it's kind of like a punctuation,

you know just like a question mark or an exclamation point might be. So that prompted me to call you.

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