kdock wrote: ↑02 Dec 2022, 19:07
Dear Chris: Really?
![Disappointed :disappointed:](./images/smilies/disappointed.gif)
After the first 20, they're all alphabetical. Yeah, you sometimes have to remember that this
![Cheers :cheers:](./images/smilies/cheers.gif)
is "cheers" ...
![Hello :hello:](./images/smilies/hello.gif)
Kim.
I don't have a problem remembering that cheers is
![Cheers :cheers:](./images/smilies/cheers.gif)
.
My so-called problem
![EvilGrin :evilgrin:](./images/smilies/evilgrin.gif)
is that when I can't remember which of the five panes houses a smiley, I have to click back and forth between panes until I find it. And that's a pain.
There is little wrong with my brain (but please see John Gray's upcoming riposte below
this post) especially when it comes to pattern-matching and images. I know the image of the smiley, but where is it in those five panels?
That is why I suggested that we group smilies into broad categories.
I suspect that you, like me, can remember that a particular smiley is basically a face, or a whole body, or is a manufactured artifact, so I reason that if all the (say) faces appear in a contiguous group, it would be easier to locate that group of smileys, at which time the super-fast pattern-matching aspects of our brains could do what they do best.
I'm also shocked to find that you don't already have a printed/digital illustrated chart of all the smilies ...
I am aggrieved that you are shocked when I might have been concerned that you would be disappointed; but that's life. You have to accept the critics that in all honesty envy you, I guess,
I haven't had a printer since 2011, and now that Peggy has gone to work in Catalina, all the fun has gone out of collecting printouts from what used to be the Bell Store. Not that they ever had a colour printer.
I know! Since I enjoy automating word processing tasks, how would it be if I dashed off a bit of VBA to translate any text into the closest approximation of a smiley-stream?
At least that would reduce the volume of critical appraisals ...
Categorically yours, Chris