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These emoticons first arose in Japan, where they are referred to as kaomoji (literally "face characters"). The base form consists of a sequence of an opening round parenthesis, a character for the left eye, a character for the mouth or nose, a character for the right eye and a closing round parenthesis.
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight.
Kaomoji on a Japanese NTT Docomo mobile phone A Kaomoji painting in Japan. Kaomoji was invented in the 1980s as a way of portraying facial expressions using text characters in Japan. It was independent of the emoticon movement started by Scott Fahlman in the United States in the same decade. Kaomojis are most commonly used as emoticons or ...
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases.
The book contains one of the longest sentences in English literature, with 13,955 words. The Rotters' Club was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal 's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age : a Czech language novel that consisted of one great sentence.
Lynn Keller notes that the long poem enabled modernists to include sociological, anthropological, and historical material. Many long poems deal with history not in the revisionary sense but as a simple re-telling in order to prove a point. Then there are those who go a step further and recite a place's or people's history in order to teach.
Strengths is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel letter. [30] Euouae, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels.
The result, the 1034-letter "Edna Waterfall", [3] [4] was for some time listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest palindrome in English. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 1969, Bergerson became editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics , though stepped down a year later when Greenwood Periodicals dropped the publication.