(April 27, 2010 at 11:15 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: It's not impossible to convey tone without emoticons. They help but it's not the only way.
This is true... but it's easily visible and adds a lot of color to posts, or at least I think they are and do

Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day