tone indicator

English

Noun

tone indicator (plural tone indicators)

  1. (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
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