In a message dated 3/26/2009 4:48:24 AM Pacific Standard Time, brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca 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.
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