{"id":1838,"date":"2010-03-09T10:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:02:01","slug":"what-does-your-emoticon-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100309-1838.htm","title":{"rendered":"What does your emoticon mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emoticons<\/b>. We use them all the time. Some people like to have them converted to smileys (see above). I prefer that they stay as ASCII characters. <\/p>\n

Even when they’re ASCII, we generally know what they mean.<\/p>\n

:-) means happy face or smiling
\n:-( means sad face or frowning
\n;-) means winky face or winking
\n:-D means grinning
\n:-P means sticking out your tongue<\/p>\n

Emoticons are supposed to help us express emotion. They’re supposed to add some non-verbal information to our text conversations.<\/p>\n

And they do. But sometimes they don’t really give enough information. Because yes, the above descriptions are true–but what do you mean<\/i> by them?<\/p>\n

I use a limited emoticon library, but what I use has very definite meanings (and not really exactly what they look like.)<\/p>\n

What my emoticons mean<\/b><\/p>\n

:-) means I’m happy, content, all is well
\n:-( means I just wrote something that I find sad
\n;-) means “inside joke alert”, that not everybody will get this but I think you will
\n:-P means I’m teasing you <\/p>\n

What do your emoticons mean?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emoticons. We use them all the time. Some people like to have them converted to smileys (see above). I prefer that they stay as ASCII characters. Even when they’re ASCII, we generally know what they mean. :-) means happy face or smiling :-( means sad face or frowning ;-) means winky face or winking :-D … Read more What does your emoticon mean?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}