Talk:smiley face

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smiley face

Second sense - I've never seen a smiley called a smiley face. Evar. --Connel MacKenzie 15:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

• 2002, Lisa Malia McDonough, Lisa, the Brief Life of a Writer, p136

  Enter the smiley face, the computer hacker's version of comic relief.

• 2007, C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love And Economics, p94

  Against Mary Jane's wishes, I texted Gavin just to reassure him that I was not going out with his girlfriend. I put a smiley face at the end of the message.

• 2005, Craig Cornwell, Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood, p20

  Two minutes later a reply came back.

  Cool, see you tomorrow...x

  Campbell sent back a smiley face, did a little dance around the bedroom and flopped back onto his bed wearing a smiley face of his own.

These are just examples where the word is used for emoticons. For generic, handwritten smiles, eg those that junior high school students write in their binders, there are many other cites. Language Lover 16:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

How should the usage note describe that as a misuse, that somehow manages to squeak past our faulty CFI? --Connel MacKenzie 04:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

When I first saw this I, too, had never heard smiley face used for emoticon. But I think the first person to succeed in internalizing the entire English lexicon in all its vast size, will have their brain explode :-) We learn new things every day, and must not assume that just because a word is not in our personal lexicon, it does not exist... Language Lover 03:35, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

OTOH, it is a serious failing, to not warn readers of probable misuse. --Connel MacKenzie 06:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

RFV passed. —Ruakh_TALK 04:05, 14 June 2007 (UTC)