Yesterday I graded my Gen Alpha students' homework. I usually add some notes on top of their score so they know how to improve. This morning, one of them came to me and asked what did :( mean at the end of one of my notes. "Oh that's just a sad face made with a colon and a parenthesis." "Oh, right. Why did you make it tilted?" "It's just like we did it back in the day... Oh nevermind :("