Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

Re:Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed by wodenokoto on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:22AM (#12564349)

There is a whole parallel smiley history from Asia that either hasn't been documented as well as the western smileys or simply hasn't been translated.

The notable thing about asian smileys is that they have the same horizon as the text, whereas western smileys needs to be turned 90 degrees. Compare (^.^) with :-)

So given that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is both unicode and horizontal indicates that it is either from Asia or came to be after asian smileys became more prevalent in the west.

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Re:Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed by josefx on Friday September 23, 2016 @10:26AM (#12564842)

> compare (^.^) with :-)

I have no mouth and I must smile

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Re:Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed by Ntrails on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:36AM (#12564465)

I done screwed up. I hope nobody saw...

>_>

<_<

>_<

(I always felt like finding some of these alt smilies increased expressiveness)

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Re:Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed by shmageggy on Friday September 23, 2016 @10:23AM (#12564816)

Interesting that Japanese smileys show emotion via the eyes while the American-born ones show emotion via the mouth, which mirrors the respective cultural norms.

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Re:Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed by err4nt on Friday September 23, 2016 @10:04AM (#12564676)

m =^_^= m

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