Emoticons or smileys at first small ascii icons used in emails to designate the sprite in which the
message has been typed. But they can also designate other humourous stuff, or simpe jokes.To understand them, just tilt your head to the left and use your imagination.
Smileys are the human touch of the email, they are your voice inflections.
The five basic ones :
:-) Happy, smiling :-( Unhappy, sad :-o "Oh, nooooooo!" ;-) Joking, wink :-I Indifferent smiley
For a more sophisticated communication :
:-> Sarcastic
>:-> Devilish
>;-> Winky Devil combined
'-) Another wink
:-" Pursing lips
:-V Shout
:-w Speak with forked tongue
:-W Shout with forked tongue
:-p Sticking tongue out
:-1 Smirk
:-, Another smirk
:-T Keeping a straight face (tight-lipped)
:-D Large smile
:-o Shouting
:-O Large shouting
:~i Smoking
:~j (and smiling)
:/i No smoking
:-I It's something, but I don't know what....
:-* A kiss
:-x A big kiss
:-X A big wet kiss
:-> Alternate happy face
:-c Real unhappy
:-< Forlorn
B-) Smiling and wearing glasses or sunglasses
8-) Same as previous; also used to denote wide-eyed look
|-( Late night messages
:-{#} Smiley with braces
(:-$ Ill smiley
(:^( Smiley with broken nose
(:<) Smiley with blabber mouth
:-(=) Smiley with big teeth
&:-) Smiley with curly hair
@:- Smiley with wavy hair
?-( Smiley with a black eye
:-# My lips are sealed
:-/ Skeptical
:-@ Screaming
8-O Horror!
:-\ Undecided
:-] Smiley blockhead
;-( Crying
:-& Tongue tied
:-Q Smoking smiley
:,( Crying smiley
:-7 Smirking
8:-) Little girl
:-)8 Big girl
For a top-level-nearly-cryptic-communication :
P-) Pirate
):-( Vicking
*:* You talk about fuzzy things
%-) Broken glasses
+<:-| Monk
{0-) Cyclop
(:-|K- Formal message.
@%&$%& You know what that means...
||*( Handshake refused
||*) Handshake accepted
<&&> Rubber chickens
2B|^2B The meaning of life
(-_-) Secret smile
<{:-)} Message in a bottle
<:-)<<| From a space rocket
(:-... Heart-breaking message
(:>-< Hands up!
:^{ Big mustaches
{ Alfred Hitchcock
d:-) Baseball smiley
:-J Tongue-in-cheek comments
:*) Clowning around
:-8 Talking out both sides of your mouth
(:-) Msgs dealing with bicycle helmets
@= Warning about nuclear war
:-{ Count Dracula
=|:-)= Uncle Sam
7:) Reagan
O:-) Angel
:-# Censored
<:-l Dunce
:=) Orangutan
=:-) Smiley is a punk
=:-( Real punk never smiles
>:-l Klingon
@:-) With a turban
[:-) Listening to a walkman
[:] Robot
3:[ Pitbull
8<:-) Wizard
:#) Drunk
+-( Shot between the eyes
~:-P Smiley with one single hair
O-) Smiley after smoking a banana
BI A frog
:---) You lie like pinnochio
But this was just some rough examples.
Smiley's sites for professionnals exist. Just clic on the following links to visit them.
Enjoy!