Re: Smiley-face query

Major Major <-@-.-> wrote in message
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>But I am always perplexed by one situation. That is, a smiley at the end
>of a sentence in parenthesis. Such as this:
>
>(No, I don't mean Bob :))

Whenever I come against this problem, I use dashes -- like this ;) --
instead of parenthesis.  It's less detracting from the ;) part of the
smiley.

>(BTW, I was sorry to hear of your Aunt's demise :()

Of course, this does not seem to be "parenthetical information" -- if you
only mention their Aunt's passing in, well, in passing, do you really give
the impression that you care? :\ -- (See, I did it again with the dashes!)

But you see what I mean, I think.  If you want parenthesis that badly, maybe
you could reword it "(BTW, I heard your aunt passed away. :( I'm so sorry)"
because this phrase doesn't seem to lend itself to dashing, although for the
most part dash & parenthesis are almost equivalent.

>>BKNambo, who mourns -- really :\ -- inability to parenthesize smileys
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