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  • From: Steve Burnett <sburnett AT webslingerZ.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: And the "Late Entry Award" goes to....
  • Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:46:39 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Gina Norman wrote:

> Which leads me to a pressing question,,, when one "emoticons" at the end
> of a parenthetical statement, does the end of the emoticon "count" as the
> end-paren? As you can see, I was so unsure of the correct response that I
> punted above, both using a ":/" varierty smiley, rather than the ";)" that
> I'd originally intended, and then, just 'cause I'm punctuation paranoid,
> stuck an end-paren on for good measure.

Ahem: an emoticon counts as a word, meaning an end-paren should follow an
emoticon, albeit with proper spacing, except in the case as you exemplify
below....

> : )

By itself on a single line an emoticon needs no additional punctuation.

regards,
Steve
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