:) >_> D: ^__^ \o

Started by Meganium July 19th, 2013 3:34 PM
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Meganium

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This is a thread about emoticons, or smilies.

It's a way to express how we're feeling through text messages, chat, and email. We have text emoticons, and we also have these emoticons PC had provided us.

Do you use emoticons to express your feelings through messages? How often do you use them? Do you prefer text emoticons, or animated/picture emoticons? What is your favorite emoticon/smiley, if you have one?

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Oh man, you're just asking for the residents of (This thread http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=305016) to come in and talk about how much they hate Emotes.

I use them a LOT when I feel like typing without using punctuation, but otherwise, it depends. I usually just hotlink pictures and reactionary gifs if possible, if anything, but I can't help the ocassional "xD" and "<3" time and time again.
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To me, they're a form of punctuation.

. - period. statements.
! - excitement!
? - huh?
:P - just joking :P
:p - being playful :p
:\ or :/ - I don't know about this :\
:] - awkward happiness :]
:[ - oh :[

and so on.
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I use emotes all the time.

Unless I'm being completely serious. -w-

Normally.. umm, if I can think of all my common ones.

:>
>w> or >u>
>o>
:3
owo
>__>
o u o
-w-
=3=
=w=
.w.
*___*
oAo


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>_>
<_<
o_O
O_o
:P
:)
:(
:D
:|
:\
:/
:3
:s
^_^

Yeah those are amongst many of the emoticons I use, and I use emoticons in most of the posts I make here on PC as well

curiousnathan

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Posted October 5th, 2020
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I use emoticons here and there; they're fun little things. I try not to use them, mainly because I want to challenge myself in developing my ability to communicate tone and feelings through just words (which is pretty hard to do on the internet!!)


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Sheep

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I love emotes. I use them all the time since they're adorable and pretty fun at conveying my emotions. My most used ones are: n~n, :D, :), :3, >_>, and <3. Not a wide variety but yeah. o/

Megan

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I don't use many of them and even if I use them it's not too often; my favourites would be:

:)
^^ (which gets translated on PC into ^^ for whatever stupid reason)
:D (which for whatever reason doesn't get translated into anything on PC)
:P
xD
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I usually used emoticons in chat and sometimes in forums, and my fave smileys are:

:)
:D
^.^
:p

SinfulGuroRose

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Though I try really hard to limit my emoticon use, as I know there are people who tend to think you're a weabo if you do that, but I find it difficult. U wU I often put emoticons at the end of my sentences to convey a better feel of how I'd be talking if this wasn't the internet. P:

Except I actually really dislike image emoticons, so I tend to actually go out of my way to avoid them. > u> Such as using P: as opposed to :P

I also really like kaomoji. O uO They're just so cute. My favorite one is (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
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Andrew

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I'm pretty fond of emoticons. I guess I just feel like they add a bit of "friendliness" to your post. My more common ones are:

:D (Extreme Happiness)
:) Regular Happiness)
:3 (In between :) and :D)
:p (Jokes)
=/ (Sorry)
O.o (What...?)
>.> (Really? Seriously?)
XD (LOLOL)

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I love emoticons! I'm going to ditto everyone else and say that they're a great way to express your emotions. My favorite emoticons are the ones that are text-based. The image-based ones are a little... weird. xD My most common smilies are the following:

;o;
;~;
:3
D:
Dx
.-.
xD
n__n

Not a lot, but that's still better than nothing. Haha.

Hikamaru

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I use emoticons a lot, mostly ones that display a happy face or even acting cute. It's a sign of showing my feelings when I'm posting or sending a VM here.
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