1."shorthand"是速記的意思
請看http://www.omniglot.com/writing/shorthand.html
2."internet shorthand"在網路上有不同的意義,
請看
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,67313,00.html
3."smiley"才是符碼
請看
http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/ascii/smileys.html
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm