'Soft Sigh' sightings.

[Alladinsane]

In defense of those of us who make the long detailed emotes, I thought it might be amusing to document the prevalence of certain rote emotes. Disclaimer, I also use many of these as well as the longer ones. Sometimes the situations dictate how we emote.

Examples might be: "soft sighs" "narrows the eyes" "raises a brow" "blinks"; "furrows or knits brow'; "lightly frowns"; "chuckles"'; "nods"; "sticking the tongue out"

Other examples? Please do not use names or places, even time stamps may out you. This is just a fun observation, lets not attack each other or turn this into something else. We play cantr to have fun, not to judge others.
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example:

You hear from radio at freq. 100: "Please. *There's a soft sigh.* Give them a hug for me, will you? And maybe see if that cask is ready to go yet? Not yours, but the second one? I was supposed to be back home for this..."

example 2:

4239-6.22: a woman in her sixties says: "*she narrows her eyes at the beasts*"

[Marian]

I'm not even going to join in here, because I'm super guilty of all the above. My characters talk a lot and I try to show their personality that way, I rarely take the time for elaborate emotes anymore.

[catwill]

I see your 'soft sigh' and raise you two 'yawns softly's in a row today.

[Swingerzetta]

I would like to add smirking to your list.
I have noticed how remarkably wide-spread the ability to raise one brow is. I'm guessing this usually means eyebrow, and I often feel jealous, as I seem to be alone in my inability to move my eyebrows independently.

[catwill]

I have one who is a big smirker Also, I just tried to raise one brow and can't without making quite an ugly face so that will have to now be reserved for only the most ridiculous of ridiculousness that occurs.

[Snickie]

My mom can't raise just one eyebrow either.

[Black Canyon]

My mom can't raise just one eyebrow either.

I'm thinking it's a state of mind.

[NancyLee]

I'm thinking it's a state of mind.

And now you got me trying hard to raise the right one, I never noticed before I can only do it with the left one.

[Marian]

This man knows how to do it right.

[hyrle]

I admit I'm guilty of a lot of these, but I will also do long, detailed emotes as well. It just depends on what I'm doing.... sometimes the lazy way is good enough.

[Estaar]

I would like to remind you that some players' English is simply not as good as a native speaker's. Even if their grammar may be correct, they probably lack the richness of language, the many synonyms etc that you native speakers have.

Threads like these make me wonder if you would rather have them not play at all than use one 'smirk' or 'raised eyebrow' too many.

[Chroma Key]

I don't think this issue is strictly down to that, Estaar. I can count a few constant smirkers, or brow raisers, and they are native speakers.
I also do know a lot of players who are non-native speakers, who absolutely write beautifully, and would put quite a few native speakers, who can't tell their its from it's, their/thier/there, thief/theif, use atrocious spelling and don't seem to have heard of punctuation, etc, to shame. Kudos to those players.

[Taralyn]

Mine smile, grin, chuckle, laugh, giggle, raise a brow, and yawn softly probably all two frequently. I also do the more extensive emotes, but I don't have time to do it all the time. I have thought that I should make a list of alternative emotes that I can cut and paste to keep it more interesting.

[Otherside]

I love emotes, I raise a helluva lot of eyebrows (and I can, and do in real life, a lot), but I now don't smirk as much as I used to after another post.. Oh yea, I probably wink way too much too.. it's almost a bad habit. Places have even been called "winky" when two of my chars were in town at the same time.

I need to find some of Melodianme's emotes for this thread, she is without a doubt the queen of long elaborate emotes! <3

raise a brow, quirk a brow, wink, grin, smile, smirk, glance all too much. But who doesn't?

[Marian]

quite a few native speakers, who can't tell their its from it's, their/thier/there, thief/theif, use atrocious spelling and don't seem to have heard of punctuation, etc, to shame.

This, absolutely. This probably belongs in the 'things that annoy you' thread, but I see so many characters, and some of them in prominent positions in big towns, who constantly make one line posts of incomprehensible garbage full of typos with no capital letters...I'll take a hundred *smiles* and *shrugs* over that any day. It drives me up the wall because it's not like my characters can even respond to it, 'lazy typer' is not workable as an IC reason to be annoyed at a character.

I do have a few simple emotes that I've noticed before that I rely on as a crutch with almost all my characters, but my excuse for this is that some of them talk so much, if I'm posting two paragraphs of dialogue already I have to trim text somewhere. I treat emotes like *rolls her eyes* or whatever more like punctuation marks than anything.