Re: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you: (frown! ):

> Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)

My choice, but the real problem is how to frown

(unfortunately putting the colon after the paren looks strange ):

(and it doesn't get better with an extra dash )-:

Or am I wrong? ;)

Cheers Rolf

_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)}

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Re^2: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you: by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 01, 2015 at 16:43 UTC
Frowns in parenthetical usage? Why not: ( :<( ) ...or . . ̑ ...or — :-( — ...among other possibilities? Spirit of the Monastery	[reply]
Re^3: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you: (Russian emoticons ))) by LanX (Saint) on Mar 01, 2015 at 18:42 UTC
> Why not ... ( psst ... compatibility! ;) FWIW a Russian friend once send me many "serious" mails full of unbalanced parentheses "noise", till I understood that smileys have neither eyes nor nose over there! ) In the end its a question of habit and standards. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)} PS: Je suis Charlie!	[reply]
Re^4: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you: (Russian emoticons ))) by MilanorTSW (Beadle) on Mar 25, 2015 at 15:11 UTC
Maybe Russians just write in Lisp by default))))))	[reply]
Re^5: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you: (Russian emoticons ))) by chacham (Prior) on Mar 27, 2015 at 13:53 UTC