Unsupported titles/:-)

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Etymology

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: (eyes) + - (nose) + ) (smiling mouth). First used with the intended purpose of expressing emotion in a post by Scott Fahlman to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general bulletin board on 19 September 1982[1]

Symbol

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:-)

  1. An emoticon representing a smiley face.

Usage notes

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  • Where it would otherwise precede a right parenthesis ), sometimes the two are combined so that only one right parenthesis is used:[2]
    Migrating to Linux (or BSD :-) would help our users keep track of their uploads and file permissions.

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Descendants

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  • ⇒ Russian: )

References

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  1. ^ “:) turns 25”, in CNN.com‎[1], Associated Press, 2007 September 20, retrieved 2007-09-20
  2. ^ TED Talk (xkcd comic, Feb 9 2009)
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