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Subject:Tongue in cheek emoticon? From:geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA Date:Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:29:09 -0500
JamesPVW said <<There needs to be a smiley or emoticon to
mean "said tongue in cheek.">>
There is, sort of... the official copyediting-l symbol for
this is <Fe> (and end with </Fe> if you're into markup
language). One day we decided there was a need for a symbol
to denote irony, you see, so I came up with... <grin>
--Geoff Hart @8^{)} geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.
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