• SokathHisEyesOpen
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    341 year ago

    :P is appropriate a lot of times when 😛 is not, and the latter is what slack converts it to. 😋 Is what they should use. One looks like you’re being silly, the other looks sexually desperate.

    • TheSaneWriter
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      241 year ago

      :P can also be more neutral than happy at times, which is a nuance that the emoji lacks.

      • @Classy@sh.itjust.works
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        21 year ago

        Yeah :P growing up for me was always either “yeah that’s silly” in a more nondescript way, or it was something akin to “yeah XYZ isn’t great but it is what it is” — almost like a diet version of :/

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      Yeah, there’s a kinda cheeky tone to :p and ;p that none of the graphical ones I’ve seen have captured. :S is another one, where I see it as half smile, half frown/sad. Like “this is amusing but also horrible” or “putting on a smile despite everything being awful”. Any of the smileys on my phone that have more than one curve for the mouth look either crazy or sick.