tone indicator
tone indicator noun: a symbol conveying the tone or context of a message, often over the internet.
Noun
tone indicator (plural tone indicators)
- A symbol conveying the tone or context of a message, often over the internet.
- 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.1990, Geoffrey Nunberg, chapter 5, in The Linguistics of Punctuation, Cambridge University Press, page 65
- But what tone indicators lack in artfulness, they make up for in their bulletproof inability to be misinterpreted.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 04 Jul 2021
- Synonyms:
- tone tag, mood indicator
Synonyms of tone indicator
- tone tag
- mood indicator
Forms of tone indicator
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Questions about tone indicator
- What does tone indicator mean?
- Tone indicator means a symbol conveying the tone or context of a message, often over the internet.
- What part of speech is tone indicator?
- Tone indicator is a noun.
- What is the plural of tone indicator?
- The plural of tone indicator is tone indicators.
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