emoticon

The emoji sets used by Japanese cell phone carriers contain a large number of characters for emoticon images, along with many other non-emoticon emoji.

The wink-emoticon is due to the fact that I carefully mirrored the structure of rayiner's comment in my own.

Is the wink-emoticon because Uber deliberately and carefully generates the fewest jobs possible by structuring its workforce as 1099 contractors?

Of course everyone wants to see slightly taller than line height image representing the emoticon.

The earliest and strongest claim is that emoticon use varies like accents or dialects.

Hipchat would initiate laggy emoticon autocomplete after I typed an opening paren, which I found very obnoxious.

My goal was almost always to add a parenthetical statement, not an emoticon.

Sarcastic, which is why I included /s (a de facto emoticon of such) at the end.

It could only be worse if they had chosen a smiley emoticon.

It isn't true; different people assign different meanings to the same emoticon.

I'm not against emoticon even if I don't like, for instance, all the big emoticon that facebook uses, but I like using a few like:P or;).

Over time, many systems began replacing such sequences with images, and also began providing ways to input emoticon images directly, such as a menu or palette.

I think it's the general texture of the "LOL", smiley emoticon, and exclamation more than the gratitude.

It would be more appropriate for there to be an entirely separate "expressions" standard for encoding various emoticon systems (there's several) and providing a standard iconography.

I wonder if Safari's is any better -- can't be bothered installing the beta.) Not a big fan of your "b^)" emoticon -- doesn't look like anything to me, and doesn't show up in lists of common emoticons.

Saying that since no one has yet "paid for a team of people to do it" then it "must not be worth doing" Except that it's much less declarative than you're stating ('kind of implies' is pretty far from 'must'), and even has an emoticon added to indicate commiseration: "kind of implies that no one thinks it is worth doing:(".