Talk:Emoticon/Archive 1

message: Interesting.  I saw the "Communications Breakthrough" link, and I'm quite surprised that these things were artificially created.  I always thought someone just started using them one day, and then they spread like wildfire. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smack (talk • contribs) 02:22, 18 May 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: artificial creation

message: what about the creation of a List_of_emoticons page? Ebricca 04:00, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: wiktionary:Smiley is probably more appropriate for those. --Menchi 04:03, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: List of emoticons

message: What about 'clam' smileys like (:) (;) (8) or maybe bigger ones like (:D) (:P) (8o) ? -- Kimiko 10:12, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think those things might be in the wiktionary:Internet slang entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flamingo (talk • contribs) 12:33, 10 August 2004 (UTC)

text: Well, I see them all the time in Starcraft channels - Unregistered User (67.120.106.108), 03:49, 9 June 2005 (UTC)

text: I've seen kirby emoticons sometimes.  They show up on irc (and bash.org) sometimes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.156.70.124 (talk • contribs) 02:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

text: no-one uses the (-) anymore i.e. :P is used not :-p —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.100.185.178 (talk • contribs) 12:08, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clam emoticons and &lt;expressions&gt;

message: I don't know where you would put something like :-3 and explain that...  -- AllyUnion (talk)  — Preceding undated comment added 09:04, 19 August 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: What does it mean and how common is it? I can't remember seeing it used myself... --Joy [shallot]  — Preceding undated comment added 12:51, 19 August 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen it most commonly around anime fans.  It's suppose to indicate an anime wolfish smile. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:24, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  I would argue that it's more cattish than wolfish, actually. --Psyk0 12:19, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: I would argue that it's really too obscure for this article... -Aranel ("Sarah") 01:37, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Couldn't help but to comment out JarlaxleArtemis's comment. Bleh X-| --Ihope127 01:23, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's rather obscure, but it's still not quite anime. It's bassically just a cat smile, the actual meaning is much too esoteric to put in words XD. Just pick a darn category and throw it in. Oh, by the way, :3 is also common too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.137.149.0 (talk • contribs) 06:55, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I've used that emote (or the variant ":3" or "=3") as a "nodding emoticon" where the 3 represents the chin of the person. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keakealani (talk • contribs) 03:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: :-3

message: The Smiley is a duplicate page, so I've put up a mergefrom.  -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:32, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate page 

message: I have noticed people replacing traditional emoticons in SMS messages with single-character representations such as ü Ü ö Ö, presumably to save space in the message. Would someone care to make mention of this in the article? porge 03:31, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  SMS emoticons 

message: That "Arab Letter Teh With Ring" is a perfect pre-formed emoticon: ټ Excellent ;) porge 10:52, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a nice discovery. In SMS-speak, a similar, but simpler idea is already in use: The German letter "U umlaut", Ü, is a one-character emoticon (well, if you're not German, Estonian or Hungarian, anyway).  — JIP | Talk 07:49, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  I've just noticed ... 

message: This article has no bearing in common usage, it's a bunch of purists pontificating about what "proper use" is. "Common eastern examples"?? What the heck is that even supposed to mean? That table is incomprehensible.
And as for Korean, Japanese, Chinese? No. This is the ENGLISH Wikipedia, and none of that belongs here. 76.102.1.129 (talk) 06:23, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wildly inappropriate and useless article 

message: Ambrose Bierce used an actual "smiley" symbol, not ASCII art, and there was no exclamation point.  The reference now comes with a link to Google Books, in case anyone wants to see his actual examples. Choor monster (talk) 20:21, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct Bierce 

message: "Kaomoji" and "emoji", being Japanese words, act as mass nouns and do not take an "s" when made plural.  Think words like "information"; no one says "informations".  I've fixed the infractions I saw.  98.23.157.76 (talk) 01:35, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plural of Kaomoji and Emoji 

message: If an emoticon is punctuation turned into an emotion symbol or face, does the 70s-era Smiley Face really qualify?  There was never anything specifically "punctuation" about that iconic image.  I would argue that the 80s invention (or re-invention) of emoticons was a winking reference to the Smiley Face, but that the Smiley Face itself is not an emoticon.  The example of a roadside sign with a smiley on it seems a very poor example of "emoticon".
Strider (talk) 22:38, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does 70s Smiley Face Qualify? 

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replies: text: To clarify, are these studies about emoticons like :) or like 😀? --ChiveFungi (talk) 14:40, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal 

message: Recent studies on emoticons usage indicate that frequency of emoticons posting can be predicted by sex and age of the user rather than personality traits. Females and younger users are most likely to embed emoticons in their social media posts . At the same time research confirmed intuitiveness of emoticons by demonstrating that even children without any social media experience are likely to accurately attribute emotions to emoticons, especially happiness and sadness .
— Preceding unsigned comment added by AnnOlesz (talk • contribs) 
:To clarify, are these studies about emoticons like :) or like 😀? --ChiveFungi (talk) 14:40, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emoticons and Psychology

message: I'm amazed anyone really thinks that the 1600s Herrick example could be supposed to represent a face, and not merely colon and bracket punctuation occurring together. That's hardly uncommon. Another example, from 1741, can be found as a citation at Wiktionary's entry for the word "unlectured". 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:B1F9:E0AA:2B81:541C (talk) 14:54, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very old examples clearly not faces 

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