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Culture Determines Which Emoticon You Use
Ant writes "A LiveScience story discusses the cultural differences in interpreting facial expressions. The article notes that where you come from plays a large role in what part of the human face you use to determine another person's mood. That also includes communicating online with the usages of smiley faces. 'For instance, in Japan, people tend to look to the eyes for emotional cues, whereas Americans tend to look to the mouth, says researcher Masaki Yuki, a behavioral scientist at Hokkaido University in Japan ... In Japan, emoticons tend to emphasize the eyes, such as the happy face (^_^) and the sad face (;_;). "After seeing the difference between American and Japanese emoticons, it dawned on me that the faces looked exactly like typical American and Japanese smiles," he said.'"
by the politickers NetBSD user ink splashes across exploited that. A ME! It's ooficial are there? Let's to yet another you get distracted
gtfo namefags
They do the different emoticons because it puts the face in the proper oriontation. In this way they can turn around and ask the western world "Who has the slanted eyes now?"!
You are not Anonymous. So shut the hell up, you wasted orgasm.
You are the fucking cancer, and this is no joke. Please GTFO and never come back.
I never use the "Japanese style" emoticons, just the regular sideways ones. From choice, I won't give my smileys noses, instead preferring the :) form. But in some fonts (notably Arial), that results in a very flat and unnatural-looking face - so I use :-) just to make it look more "right".
Well, I've never heard of the spelling "portmandeau" and I'm not sure of the sense of doing so, but it appears you are retconning that spelling.
P.S. Your post was annoying.