Re: Tongue in cheek emoticon? (was: Re: [CONLANG] Pequeno (was Re: Pilovese in the Romance Language Family))

Actually most emoticon listings give :-J for 'tongue in cheek', with
-) and :-? as runners-up. As can be seen from the Wikipedia article
"Emoticon" -) has a venerable history as a kind of proto-emoticon. :-?
to me suggests 'puzzled, wondering', but :-J best suggests 'half
serious, half mischievous'. IMHO it eventually boils down to agreeing
to use **something** for 'tung-in cheek' on this list, since some
members feel the need.

/BP

2008/4/11, Kelly Drinkwater <mizunomi@...>:
> I rather like both :-J and :-'), but I'd use them in different
>  situations -- the latter when something is just funny, the former when
>  something is ha ha only serious.
>
>
>  On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Eldin Raigmore
>  <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
>  > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:58:08 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson
>  >  <bpj@...> wrote:
>  >  >On 10.4.2008 Scotto Hlad wrote:
>  >  >>My tongue was firmly planted deeply in my cheek for which
>  >  >>we have no emoticon.
>  >  >What about :-J ?
>  >  >/BP
>  >
>  >  I thought
>  >  :-,)
>  >  or
>  >  :-),
>  >  or
>  >  :-')
>  >  or
>  >  :-)'
>  >  were the "tongue-in-cheek" eomoticons.
>  >
>  >  Probably
>  >  :-')
>  >  is best.
>  >
>

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