I either give a smiley a nose or not, depending on what looks better given the default font that the places uses. I think that on LW “:)”, looks pretty squished-together and hard to even make out, so here I use “:-)” instead.
(It has always struck me as a little weird that nobody else seems to do this—if they use smilies at all, it’s either always with a nose or always noseless. But then, my active vocabulary for emoticons tends to be broader than that of most folks in any case.)
Oh yeah, the ^_^ face looks bad in some of the wider fonts.
I sometimes feel that pull to adopt something as a convention because it seems reasonable to me. But then I realize that it’s not really a convention if no one understands or follows it, and it requires a lot of work to explain and popularize. So I’m always left reminding my own brain of its pointlessness despite its … seeming reasonableness. For (a California-specific) example, I always want to signal left in a left-turn lane to let the people behind me to know that I’m going to U-turn. But I’m probably the only person that does that so people behind me just figure I didn’t turn my signal off or whatever. =/
I think people who regularly talk to you probably pick up on your smiley meanings intuitively; people hopefully don’t regularly drive behind me.
I either give a smiley a nose or not, depending on what looks better given the default font that the places uses. I think that on LW “:)”, looks pretty squished-together and hard to even make out, so here I use “:-)” instead.
(It has always struck me as a little weird that nobody else seems to do this—if they use smilies at all, it’s either always with a nose or always noseless. But then, my active vocabulary for emoticons tends to be broader than that of most folks in any case.)
Oh yeah, the ^_^ face looks bad in some of the wider fonts.
I sometimes feel that pull to adopt something as a convention because it seems reasonable to me. But then I realize that it’s not really a convention if no one understands or follows it, and it requires a lot of work to explain and popularize. So I’m always left reminding my own brain of its pointlessness despite its … seeming reasonableness. For (a California-specific) example, I always want to signal left in a left-turn lane to let the people behind me to know that I’m going to U-turn. But I’m probably the only person that does that so people behind me just figure I didn’t turn my signal off or whatever. =/
I think people who regularly talk to you probably pick up on your smiley meanings intuitively; people hopefully don’t regularly drive behind me.