A way to help others "hear" your tone while typing or reading. Capitalizations used to help animate your typing and dissuade misunderstandings in text.

TOtally missed your pillow idea. LOVE IT. ;-)

I have new apps on my phone & ALL my contacts to re-add

"TOtally" "LOVE IT" "ALL" = Emphatic Typing

Emphatic Typing by smashleeca November 11, 2009

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emphatic

Means insistent or forceful.

I decided to answer her, now that she was more emphatic.

emphatic by XXHolic October 24, 2010

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Emphatically

According to Merriam-Webster.com

Definition of EMPHATIC

1
: uttered with or marked by emphasis <an emphatic refusal>
2
: tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action
3
: attracting special attention
4
: constituting or belonging to a set of tense forms in English consisting of the auxiliary do followed by an infinitive without to that are used to facilitate rhetorical inversion or to emphasize something

Adverb for emphatic

The teachers emphatic speech motivated her students to perform better in the class material.

In order for us to gain respect we must be emphatic about our demands and fight for what is right.

They were emphatically removed from the bar after refusing to leave a tip.

Emphatically by Beta20 April 15, 2012

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emphasifical

nice bum

Paige : Woah did you just see harry walk by?
Tina : Yeahh, he has a nice emphasificall!
Chels: DAYYYMMMNN.
;)

emphasifical by pkells, kharrs, and ccogz October 10, 2008

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Emphatic Fist

Enhancing the strength of your statement or song by making a fist in the air. It's like bold type for spoken words!

Here comes the big moment in the song, it's time for emphatic fist!

Emphatic Fist by Best Words January 11, 2013

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fauxstalgia

Faux nostalgia. Faking old things in an attempt to recapture the feeling of times gone past, especially of technology that has passed.

Hipstamatic pictures, just like the vinyl-static added to digital recordings, is prime fauxstalgia

fauxstalgia by scotte61 December 16, 2010

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pajama casual

Pajama casual is a term used when working from home and preparing for a video conference. All business above the waist and your pajama pants down below.

We have a Zoom meeting in a few minutes and I’ll probably go pajama casual.

pajama casual by jrod-knows March 31, 2020

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