May 09, 2003
;-)

So it's occurred to me in the past that I use smiley faces a little too often. I'll be typing up an email, and I'll include a ;-) at the end of a paragraph once I've concluded a joke or funny comment.

Then I'll go on to the next paragraph, and at the end of that one I make another funny comment or joke that I also feel requires a ;-) to emphasize the comment.

Now the dilemma. I usually don't like to have two ;-)'s following consecutive paragraphs, so it comes down to a decision: Which ;-) do I get rid of? It's as if I have to kill a joke to preserve the reputation of the email before all of my words and feelings become a mish-mash of emoticons and the text looks more like a 14 year old girl's AOL IM conversation with a "16/F/Los Angeles" who is actually a "34/M/My Mom's Basement."

I like that last scentence so much, I think I'll have to end that thought there. :-)

Posted by Austin at May 09, 2003 08:00 AM
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you know what i have a problem with? often i will make an inside joke or other emoticon-worthy statement inside a set of parentheses. but you can't put a :) or a ;) next to a paran, or it would be confusing to the reader because it would look like a double-mouth smiley or a screwed-up set of parentheses. such a quandary.

Posted by: D on May 10, 2003 08:24 PM

Use square brackets for your comment, and then it looks different than his mouth. [or a smiling movie star with a square chin :) ]

Posted by: Janine on May 11, 2003 08:49 AM
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