punctuation

I prefer the time and consideration which can be put behind written communication. Other people evidently prefer spoken speaking. Whilst carefully-written text can accurately convey the mood of the person doing the writing (or the mood of the person they're writing about) some people (perhaps those who prefer (or are better at (or, compared to writing, less ineffective when)) speaking) feel that written writing lacks the obviousness or clarity of the mood able to be conveyed by tone of voice, strength of plosive, timbre, speech speed and (if face-to-face as well as voice-to-ear) expression, gesture (and micro-expression and unconscious gesture) and possibly smell. Such people may be the type of people to append (or replace portions of) text with the various variations of smiley, either emphasizing or modifying written expressions or acting as a mood-stamp where merely crudely indicating a particular facial expression. They're hardly ever necessary though are sometimes (grudgingly) slightly useful but they currently lack the subtlety of the actual physical presence of a person (or the detail of a carefully-written description) in conveying mood, and the changes thereof. The visual display of the Kevin-Spacey-voiced computer in Moon had the inklings of the right idea in the constantly-changing mood-indicating icon; fluctuations of expression are useful whereas a fixed, single expression is much less use than even a single word of mood-describing description. Expressions change over the course of a sentence, as will the voice, as will the expression(s) of the voice-hearing and expression-viewing co-conversant(s); a single expression-substitute per word would be closer, but their convenience would then be lost.

As is often the case, and entity which exhibited a particularly obvious metaphorical large grey weather-map-style raincloud over their head yesterday were relatively cheerily bouncy today, at least white and fluffy if not quite accompanied by a sun peeking out from behind. Fortunately I finished the really tedious and not-insurmountable-but-very-irritating job which was irritating me at the start of the week yesterday and was therefore more able to absorb vague suggestions of extra tasks providing that they don't need to be done by the end of the week, where sits the next nearest mini-deadline.