tone indicator
English
Noun
tone indicator (plural tone indicators)
- (Internet slang) a symbol conveying the tone or context of a message.
- (Can we date this quote?), Geoffrey Nunberg, chapter 5, in The Linguistics of Punctuation, Cambridge University Press, page 65:
- For one thing, it helps to shed light on the nature of the question mark and the exclamation point – the "tone indicators" – which I have not considered up to here.
- 2020 December 9, Ezra Marcus, “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2021-07-04, retrieved 2021-07-04:
- But what tone indicators lack in artfulness, they make up for in their bulletproof inability to be misinterpreted.
Synonyms
- tone tag
- mood indicator
See also
- /s