recently, in multi player games, i've made an effort to express comments with actual words :)
to me, it's not so difficult, and just a little show of respect to people. I'll say, nice shot rather than ns for example. Or, what a great hole from tee to cup green team. That sort of thing.
so.....give it a try sometime. It really can liven up a chat........and often times makes me feel less like a chat robot lol.
go for it :)