Not acceptable, however: (parenthetical comment, plus smiley! :))
In practice, what I usually do is (parenthetical comment, plus smiley! :->), despite the possibility of misinterpretation of the parenthesis as a beard. Sadly, AIM chokes on ";->)", so this doesn't work for flirting in that medium.
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Date: 2008-02-20 05:05 pm (UTC)In practice, what I usually do is (parenthetical comment, plus smiley! :->), despite the possibility of misinterpretation of the parenthesis as a beard. Sadly, AIM chokes on ";->)", so this doesn't work for flirting in that medium.