Do you know what that means? You may or may not but chances you’ve received e-mails with the letter in place of the traditional smiley emoticon☺.The reasons are vague but it has something to do with Microsoft’s code-reading from other systems or maybe not but anyhow for some reason the well-intentioned humorous sign-off often shows up as the letter J.
So get this; a new report says that there’s no reason to fix it since apparently people have come to associate the letter J with the smiley-face to the point that it has the same effect on them.
Effect on them? How does that work?
I was thinking about this last night when someone said to me “I hope Mishpacha isn’t going to do their traditional Purim spoof since given the horrific world events — the tragedies in Japan and closer to our home our own brothers and sisters Hy’d in Itamar- it isn’t the time and place.”
The Mishpacha Purim issue and the spoof section has become something of a tradition and it’s always fun to work with the creative and talented editors and writers and trying to parody the voices and tones of our columnists.
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