Has anyone got any guidelines for using parentheses around a phrase that ends with a "smile" emoticon? My copy of Strunk & White doesn't cover this.
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Re: Emoticons within parentheses? (Like this :-) )
Fri, November 18, 2005 - 10:56 AMMake your smily express surprise or glee - (Like this - :-0)
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Re: Emoticons within parentheses? (Like this :-) )
Mon, November 21, 2005 - 8:31 PM<lol> I hope the Chicago Manual of Style never adds smileys (and I would do it like this, but I am nobody : )). This is like the OED adding 'Bootylicious'. Blasphemy!
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Re: Emoticons within parentheses? (Like this :-) )
Tue, November 22, 2005 - 1:34 AMA friend of mine came up with a good suggestion... inside parentheses, a smiley emoticon must use a > mouth. (Like this :-> ) I think it's an elegant solution. -
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Re: Emoticons within parentheses? (Like this :-) )
Sat, December 17, 2005 - 10:33 AMIf the smiley is going to stay ASCII, I like merging the two end parens just to be cute.
If the smiley is going to appear as an icon, then there are no double parens.
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