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Published: 2016-03-06 02:40:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 3501; Favourites: 56; Downloads: 13
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Recommended Reading:-"The Definitive Guide to Body Language" by Allen & Barbara Pease
-"What Every Body Is Saying" by Joe Navarro
-"Messages" by Matthew McKay, et al
This guide came about after seeing a number of people not understanding how jokes work (namely the mismatch between the words and the tone), not understanding how playful gestures can simply be playful gestures (and instead misinterpret them as violence), and those with a limited range of emotions in the comics they make or stories they write.
I will admit that about 5 years ago, I was one of these people, but in a matter of a short weeks after discovering the 7-38-55 rule, I gained a much-needed understanding of jokes, sarcasm, and much more. Now, I pass this knowledge unto you.
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This could really help me out. Thanks, Spaz! ^^
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After reading this I feel the need to burn 90% of my comics. Thank you for showing me the way.
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funny thing, i actually recently did some work on tonality and body language. so this is actually the first guide of yours that i mostly understood. in a lot of other guides you've made i couldn't quite understand, but here i totally get it because i know a bit about this topic.
unfortunately for most of us, tone is hard to convey through text. this sadly leads to many misunderstandings.
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And this is why everyone should use emoticons in comments. ^w^
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well this'll come in handy, not for walfasing but for real life events.
Regarding this to education and or social activity.
perhaps troll my other classmates by asking the lit-comp 1 teacher to use this word. (or not)
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This is great, but it is kinda hard to portray tone in the form of text.
Even more so when you don't have body language to back it up.
Do you have any good advice for text-based communication?
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Hmm. This is new information to me. And it seems rather useful.
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I wonder how hard it is to notice it on plain text.
We are on the Internet, and we comment on many different sites, forums and such.
So... comments are just text, unless there's a little image or a gif, or it's being stated with details the way that comment should be read, it certainly can be harder to detect this, I know it exists, and I know internet comments might have traces of this too, so how do I know how to detect it properly.
(So comments are easy to know if they are serious or not, but some times you might not be able to tell how it's supposed to be seen).
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I sometimes have the same problem too, as such, I sometimes get misunderstood by facts. In fact, I was about to comment the exact thing.
Though because people in the Internet can't show emotions (because they're behind the computers obviously), it's kinda difficult to actually figure out all by yourself on what "mode" they are. As such, some people usually express their emotions via Emoticons. >~>;;;
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Well, it's a real problem with a format as casual as internet comments can be. Β I myself am a pretty literal guy, so I don't run into it too often, but even I have made mistakes with that before. Β This is why many of the internet slang terms came to be. Β For ensuring sarcasm is understood, my favorite is "/sarcasm off".
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Yes, it makes more sense to do something like that.
Otherwise it's hard to understand if it's a serious comment or not (emoticons also kinda play a part in this too, it changes the tone of a comment quite a lot).
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Thx Spaz for another guide...
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Nah jk. This is actually very helpful for many people and I really like how you added the 7-38-55 rule. Not many people understand that words only mean one thing and that it only makes up a small minority on the messages we are sending. They also don't understand is that we use nonverbal communications on a day to day basis whether we know it or not. This is also very great for those who are in college level COM classes (like I am right now atm), but this is also great for others as well and that it can help out greatly whenever we get into conflicts or other situations.
Good job on the work and I am glad that you have also gotten back on track as well!
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If ~7% of communication is just words (although I would argue that it makes little sense trying to label something as abstract as that quantitatively), then it's no wonder why sarcasm on the Internet is hard to detect.
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Good job on this tutorial! 
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Very helpful. Β I hope I'm not one of them. Β If it hasn't been done yet, someone should seriously compile a large walfas sample of emotional portrayals... just as a cheat sheet for newbies to the craft.
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I got curious and did the math
85 mouths, 133 eyes, plus the three facial accessories (blush, anger, eyebrows)
That makes 33,915 TOTAL facial expressions possible.
Of course, not all of them are useful, like the blue/red Kogasa eyes, but that's still a tremendous list of faces.
I really don't think anyone would make a list of all that, if anything create.swf itself is already that list, it's just interesting seeing all the walfas facial possibilities in number form.
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Haha. Β I didn't mean literally all of them. Β Just a larger list for many of the commonly used expressions. Β Something like 50-100 or so. Β The compilation would be more for helping people better associate the emotion with the walfas expression.
Still, that's good to know about the math.
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I feel like I mostly use the same 10 - 20.
100 is by far too many for me to mentally manage.
I think a list of 30 commonly used ones would be better.
But nothing beats just going through the create.swf list and testing out what looks best.
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