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-Second Life Residents can add emotional nuances to their text chat by using "emotes". This can liven up conversation and reduce miscommunication.
-You may be familiar with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons emoticons] such as the popular smiley face "<code>:)</code>" which can be typed in the chat bar alongside any other text. There are a tremendous variety with variations. For example, happiness is also expressed via <code>^^</code>, <code>:o)</code>, and <code>=^_^=</code>. [[Unicode]] symbols from other languages that appear to be emoting faces are also used, such as the popular <code>㋡</code> [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%83 from Japanese], which appears to be a happy face.
-Emoticons are often used in {{xref|gesture|gestures}}. For example, there's a gesture which uses "<code>:)</code>" as a trigger and automatically transforms it into the aforementioned "<code>㋡</code>".
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-An emote is a way to express a resident's emotions/feelings via chat.
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-Examples :
-Emoting can also refer to an action your avatar performs, rather than says.
-You can emote in chat but talking on the "/me" channel.
-/me edits the wiki
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-Avatar Name edits the wiki