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emoticon (noun) : |
A figure created with the symbols
on the keyboard. Read with the head tilted to the left. Used
to convey the spirit in which a line of text is typed,
since we can't "hear" voice inflection over keyboarded text. (used mainly in Email messages and in Internet Chats) |
Emoticons are widely known as smilies. But there are non-smiling smilies too. Just check these out, merely for your amusement...
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The Basic Smilies |  |
:-) |
Your basic smilie. This smilie is used to inflect a sarcastic or joking statement since we can't hear voice inflection over Email. |
;-) |
Winking smilie. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smilie. |
:-( |
Frowning smilie. User did not like that last statement or is upset or depressed about something. |
:-I |
Indifferent smilie. Better than a Frowning smilie but not quite as good as a Happy smilie |
:-> |
User just made a really biting sarcastic remark, worse than a :-) |
Those are the basic ones... Here are some somewhat less common ones:
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Describing a person | |
8-) |
User is wearing sunglasses. |
B:-) |
Sunglasses on head. |
:-[ |
User is a Vampire. |
:-7 |
User just made a wry statement. |
:-)~ |
User drools. |
:-~) |
User has a cold (running nose) |
:'-( |
User is crying. |
:'-) |
User is so happy, s/he is crying. |
`:-) |
User shaved one of his eyebrows off this morning. |
|-I |
User is asleep. |
|-O |
User is yawning/snoring. |
:-Q |
User is a smoking a cigar. |
:-S |
User just made an incoherent statement. |
:-/ |
User is skeptical. |
:-9 |
User is licking his/her lips. |
[:-) |
User is wearing a walkman. |
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Showing your Actions | |
:-o |
Wow! |
:-* |
Oops! |
:-x |
Kiss kiss |
:-r |
Sticking tongue out (at you) |
:-# |
My lips are sealed |
:-0 |
No Yelling! (Quiet Lab) |
8-] |
"Wow, maaan" |
8-O |
"Omigod!!" |
:-, |
"Hmmmm..." |
|^( |
"Someone just busted my nose" |
B-D |
"Serves you right, dummy!!" |
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Responding to a comment | |
:-) |
ha ha |
|-) |
hee hee |
|-D |
ho ho |
:-> |
hey hey |
:-D |
wee hah haa! |
:-( |
boo hoo |
:-I |
hmm |
:-O |
uh oh |
:-P |
nyah nyah |
|-P |
yuk |
| Well, it all comes to your creativity. There is no such hard rules as such saying "this is what this smily means". Just use your imagination to create your own smily... atleast, it would make you smile! | |
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Narendra Gaur, January 99. Last update: January 99. |