I do not know how it can be really useful but it has a lot of emoticons and combinations and they just con be copied wit a click.

https://emojidb.org/

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#Emojis #Emoticons #Smileys # : )

I'm not very fond of emojis because they look so un-typographical. Break the flow of reading.

I really love emoticons, on the other hand, but —
Because standard smileys constantly get turned into emojies 🙂, and because nose-smileys are weird and old-fashioned :-), and non-nose smileys look like someone's head's been compressed in a really unhealthy way :), however leaving a space in the middle can result in a line break inside the smiley, my best option is now:
• End the sentence with normal punctuation,
• Unicode character 2007 (large space),
• Colon,
• Unicode character 2008 (small space),
• Closing bracket.

"2007-:-2008-)" is easy enough to remember. Looks like this: : )

If you're honest with yourself, what style of faces do you use in online communication?

Not the vibe you'd like to give off, but what you really do in practice. And let's limit it to personal communication, not your worksona.

#emoji #emoticons #smileys #kaomoji #linguistics

sometimes i replace semicolons with the Greek question mark to prevent the soulless machines converting my handmade emoticons into emojis ;-)

#unicode #emoticons

I pretty much completely stopped using #emoticons like :) when #emojis became available.

I think because I find emojis to be a much more elegant and complete solution to the same problem. Elegant in that emojis have a dedicated, unambiguous #encoding; complete in that there are loads and loads of emojis to choose from.

#emoji #Unicode #emoticon

The history of the smiley face emoticon.

"On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to shape how people communicate online. His proposal: use : - ) and : - ( as markers to distinguish jokes from serious comments."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/in-1982-a-physics-joke-gone-wrong-sparked-the-invention-of-the-emoticon/

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Are ASCII emoticons zxx-Zsye, zxx-Zsym or something else? 🤔

#lang_en #questions #emoticons