Hi Colin:
That smiley came with Alex, and Silly as it sounds, it endeared me to him.  
It's the only one I easily remember, and I know I overuse it.:)
Can't help myself.

Carolyn H
On Feb 12, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Colin M wrote:

> Hi There!
> On some of the facebook versions there is a - between the : and the D so :-D 
> might work or not!
> I used to put :-] on my emails but found that :] worked but the other version 
> works on fb!
> It is also funny the ones that Carolyn put say smilie but the ones I've typed 
> do not [ go figure]
> Colin
> Qapla!
> Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak
> 
> On 12 Feb 2011, at 22:08, Esther wrote:
> 
>> Hi Carolyn, Wes, Brett, and Others,
>> 
>> I suspect the reason that you can't set up the VO pronunciation editor to 
>> speak emoticons for ":D" (colon d form big smile) and "<3" (less 3) is that 
>> you could get potential confusion in situations where you are normally 
>> typing with colons or in mathematical expressions.  Can you imagine a 
>> passage where someone is using capital letters as a shortcut or code to 
>> refer to the names individuals (as sometimes occurs in books, or where one 
>> is reading paragraphs of a diary referring to people by their initials), and 
>> because there is no space between the colon and the "d" someone all of a 
>> sudden hears "laughing face" or "big smile"?  That would really be 
>> confusing!  Or, for example, someone who is trying to read a math equation 
>> comes to the part where an algebraic expression is less than 3, and hears 
>> "love" or "heart" in the middle?
>> 
>> I'd imagine that the annoyance value of having VoiceOver substitute 
>> emoticons under these circumstances would be considerable.  Just think of 
>> having to explain to your math teacher that you couldn't do your math 
>> homework because you've set up your screen reader to pronounce "<3" 
>> correctly for emoticons on Facebook.
>> 
>> HTH.  Cheers,
>> 
>> Esther
>> 
>>> 
>>> Wes Smith wrote:
>>> 
>>>> No, I was able to read each character, and I entered it right.  There is 
>>>> no other :D symbol or anything.  The only thing I can think of, is that 
>>>> it's some sort of weird bug.  I can't do <3 for love or heart either.  I 
>>>> emailed the Apple people, told them my situation, asked them what was 
>>>> going on.  It just bugs the heck outta me when I'm trying to read a 
>>>> Facebook post, and someone's used emoticons....which is quite frequent 
>>>> with my friends and I.  Maybe someone else has a suggestion. 
>> 
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