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I do wish apps (looking at you Slack and Teams) would stop converting my emoticons into emojis. I want :) not . edit: HackerNews strips render emoji. It should
by vangelis 5y ago
I do wish apps (looking at you Slack and Teams) would stop converting my emoticons into emojis. I want :) not .
edit: HackerNews strips render emoji. It should be this: https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/ https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/
- jazzyjackson 5y agoThe kids started reversing the smile once software started auto-converting (:
- reaperducer 5y agoSo he should use "vv?"
- dylan604 5y agoI didn't get the reference until I circled back to the read the link vangelis posted. this is where I'd use the clapping emoji
- InvaderFizz 5y agoI had no idea ^^ was an emoticon. I've been using it for years as a way to say "this."
- aulin 5y agoI always used to point out something in the line/sentence above... When did it change to a smile?!
- csande17 5y agoHip youngster here. ^^'s meaning as a smiley face comes from East Asian emoticons (somewhere like Japan or Korea, I'm not sure), where it's pretty much always represented a sort of laughing smiley face like you see in anime-style drawings sometimes -- like a short version of (＠＾◡＾). People also still use it to mean "the thing above this message", though. The easiest way to differentiate it it to use a different number of carets for the "thing above this message" meaning. I like to use one caret for each message, so like if I was referring to the comment directly above mine it'd be ^ and for three messages up it'd be ^^^. You can also use context and position; usually I expect emoticons to appear at the end of a sentence while ^^^ appears at the start.
- Uberphallus 5y agoI've always used it as a smile, to point sentences it'd be more like this ^^^^^^^
- genezeta 5y ago^_^ =^.^= -_- -_-' -_-U ^_^u *_* O_o? Ô_ô All of these, and various other combinations, are pretty old -in internet time, I guess-. They are usually known as "upright emoticons" [0], as opposed to "sideways emoticons". ^_^ gets abbreviated to ^^ and that's how you get it to be a smile. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
- touristtam 5y agoshorten version of ^_^, isn't it?
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- Cthulhu_ 5y ago:( Turn that frown upside down! ):
- festive-minsky 5y agoTechnically, upside down would still be :(
- actuallyalys 5y agoAgreed. I use emoticons and emojis in different circumstances. Emoticons feel more subdued to me.
- robbyking 5y agoThere's a setting in Slack to disable this! Settings -> Messages & Media -> Convert my typed emoticons to emoji
- thrower123 5y agoI hate when I paste code in and it turns into emojis.
- fomine3 5y agoPasting log on Skype was funny.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoOn Slack you just wrap in backticks and it formats as a monospace block and doesn't interpret further, which is nicer even than no formatting IMO.
- bear8642 5y ago> https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/ https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/ Following link, I'm surprised there's so many platform specific :) variants
- TheRealSteel 5y agoI hate this so much. Facebook Messenger does this too, in fact almost every app does. They've banned the old style smileys altogether -- there's no possible way to send a message containing one -- and it really bothers me. If I type punctuation, I want the punctuation, if I wanted the emoji I would have typed the damn emoji. I can't believe anyone thought altering people's messages without their consent was a good idea.