Few words about "smileys"...


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Most popular "smileys" are here.

Smileys are very popular on the Net, but there's no convention on how should they look. This leads to a quite big liberty - in my opinion, unfortunately too big. Below you may find few of my opinions on they look.

Most popular kind of "smiley" is the happy face. That's how it is written:
- The most popular shape is:
:-)

Well, this really looks like a happy face - and that's what we needed.
- However, I prefer something like this:
:^)

This snub nose makes it much plastic like (even three-dimensional!!!). Some people will probably say it's a face with a broken nose - and that's simply a view from a half-profile...
- Some people "forget" one character and create something like this:
:)

Well, it doesn't look like a healty face, but like this:
[ Here should go a noseless face ]
I just have to ask - who crippled him so brutally?!?!?!
- Some people think that this look like a grin from ear to ear:
:))

Well, for me this looks like this:
[ Here should go a face with two noses ]
And this is probably an effect of Chernobyl disaster... Or genetical experiments...

Paweł Więcek <coven@vmh.net>
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