 the smiley face in order to communicate that they're happy or in a good mood. But that's what words are for. You should be able to convey that emotional state through the use of actual language. The fact that adults struggle in this regard is troubling to me. I mean, pick up a history book sometime, read examples of the sorts of letters and communications people used to write to each other back in the old days. Even uneducated people, if they could write at all,