In a message dated 3/26/2009 4:48:24 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> Clear emoticon 8-; (tung in cheek with sunglasses) for sarcasm. Probable 
> emoticon in your example :-( for frustration with someone who did not read 
> one page of the fine manual. The emotion was not sarcasm or incredulity, and 
> 
> the purpose is the same.>>
> 
> 

Talk about esoteric!  I'd never heard of this emoticon.  So I have to assume 
that the vast majority of readers would have no idea what that semantic-unit 
that emoticon conveyed.

Will






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