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What's it all about... I keep seeing things like =D, =P and others, I suppose that =D is smiling so why can't people just use or if really happy , one of the ones on here that use this method a lot is Daniel it might mean a lot to him but to others on here it don't mean anything. Now I see serenity in another thread used =P what does that mean.

(Rant Over)

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Roy, if you look at =P sideways it looks kind of like a face with a tongue hanging out. That's the idea anyway.

Mark

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=P is equal to , only the smiley, to me, doesn't like he/she's showing a tongue.

I only use the real smileys, they're funnier than those =)-thingies.

is my favourite.

- Bjorn -

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Its all about being different on MSN and MySpace

Emoticons are so 2007 =/

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I laughed my ass off when i saw that

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But this ain't MSN or MySpace!!

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He's probably just gotten used to it =P

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Saving for Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX HSM Macro II (50%)

...but this IS the internet still :p <-- I overuse that far too much

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I type the same on the forum as I do on msn or myspace, which is a good thing trust me - some of my friends type in text speak basically - and I hardly understand it

MSN + MySpace = ftw =D

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>_<... u guess the opposite of

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Yeah I use the smilies all the time probably you guys have noticed I use this smiley after every single post....


Josh

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Well it's tricky because most IM applications automatically recognise these expression and convert them to the appropriate expression. PHPBB is the only service I've used with such odd code for an emoticon, for example, . is ":lol:"???

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=P
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Haha! It's a force of habit for me. I'm very used to just typing out a smilie like =) and =P that I hardly think about using the actual emoticons anymore (except maybe on deviantart to emphasize my feelings). The actual code to using them differ on every forum, so I just use what I use in e-mails, IM, etc. I've just grown accustomed to using the equal sign as "eyes" instead of the usual colon for the regular smilie...

A co-worker of mine really liked it when I used >:-[ to show my anger once in the internal IM.

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