No emoticons, failing fast

[afuna]

It looks like the best I can do is to avoid emoticons in public channels. In PM conversations with friends, where I'm too relaxed to stop and analyze what I'm saying, emoticons just come too naturally.

I suppose this means the experiment is a failure.

(Also, my exclamation points have been breeding like bunnies throughout all this. Hah)

Comments

Re: No emoticons, failing fast

[piranha]

i don't know what half the emoticons mean. :) especially all the ^^ cat ear ones. i had to look up o/ when i first saw you use it. \o/ is prety self-explanatory, as is :), but many of them have be scratching my head.

i can do simple smileys, but most of the time i use enclosing asterisks instead, like *grin*, because that means most people will get it (also because that's how i've done it for the last 30 years, *snrk*).

Re: No emoticons, failing fast

[afuna]

*grins* To confuse things even further, the cat ear ones, are sometimes smiley eyes!

o/ is waving (though I think it's more an us-IRC, and not something everyone uses).