texting
Do you use just “)” like a smile when you text your friends? Or you use only “:)” ?
In Russia we use ) extremely frequently, sometimes we add several ))))) when we mean something amusing.
But in my experience English speaking people every time use “:)”.
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English speakers are boring ;) I am allowed to say this because I am a native English speaker myself. English speakers normally only use :) for a smilie icon.
I have friends from other cultures, and all of them use different ones.
Asians often use ^_^ or ~_^
Latinos are overly expressive, and they often use <3 even with friends.
And speakers of languages that write from right-to-left (like Arabic) write their smiles like this (: sometimes.
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Only people from Eastern countries I notice use ")" (and ")))" etc.). Most English speakers don't know what it means and we just use ":)"
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I agree with Poppy, I always add the eyes too :)
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If you don’t have emojis, I would always use the : before the ) e.g. :) ;) :( :D you have to give the face some eyes!
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I only use emojis. But when I'm texting in Korean, I sometimes use "~".
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