Let's use the myLot codes more!

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We are all from different countries here. Our mother language is different from others. Americans have English, Chinese have Mandarin (and others), Koreans have Korean (?), Japanese have Nihonggo, Indians have Hindi, ours is Filipino, and many others. Since myLot is an international site, we use the international language which is English. However, not all of us are fluent in writing (and speaking) English. What we can express better in our mother language, we cannot express perfectly in English. In our own languages, we have terms and phrases that do not have equivalent terms and phrases in English. Each of our language is very rich. That's the beauty of language and that's its flaw. Sometimes, we cannot avoid but misunderstood each other. We cannot express what we really want to say and instead, say a different thing. Sometimes we say a joke, but we could not write it perfectly and others do not get our joke. Sometimes, we want to be funny but we write it in a way that offend others. Of course, grammar is a very important factor but as I've said, not all of us are fluent in the international language. But there are the myLot codes to help express ourselves better. We can use them to show our emotions, if we are happy, sad, laughing, joking, angry, crying, celebrating, disgusted, scared, confused, disappointed, suspicious, angelic, and many others. We can use them to avoid misunderstandings. If we cannot express ourselves perfectly with words, maybe we can express ourselves better with a smiley. For those who cannot use the codes yet, I'm sure you can use symbols in your computer instead. :)