Emotican’t, emotiwon’t
You may have noticed that this blog is entirely emoticon free. Partly choice, partly old-fogey-beyond-my-years-ism. Couldn’t work out any of these either:
3:-o
@>–> –
~(_8^(I)
It now seems even age is no longer an excuse for not being able to understand, or so says the IHT:
(Answers to the emoticons above are also in that article- the third one is my favourite!).
Japanese emoticons are not quite as complex are those three, but just some are just as creative and just as confusing for an English speaker. What looks to be a full list can be found here
