Smileys are a decent way to express emotion when communicating in emails or instant messages. However, what do you do when you want to use one in a parenthetical statement? This doesn’t work: (you know what I mean? ;-)) Square brackets? [kinda awkward, huh? :-)] Curley braces? {silly 8^)}.
I’ve ended up using the rather old-school and relatively-unknown <g> because that at-least works (for me, anyway <g>).
What do you do?
The smiley within the parentheses only works if you’re in a text editor that converts the graphic.. Otherwise it’s all wrong. You’re the only other person in the world besides me that I’ve known to make this point. Too funny. Hope you and Beck are well.
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