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[aroraborealis]

[Poll #1141478]

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[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

(Unless, of course, I'm chatting on a system that automatically turns emoticons into images, in which case, the closing bracket on the parenthetical statement gets lost. :)

[coraline]

but what do you do if you can't tell whether the same thing happens on your recipient's side? dilemma!

[randysmith]

A practical expression of the correctness of the true architectural purity answer: Don't combine the parenthesis and the smiley! :-}

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking. When I have to use parenthesis I use other things for the mouth part of the smiley.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

It's a problem!

[blk]

Graphical smileys are evil. I turn them all off.

[catness.livejournal.com]

That!