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Translingual

Etymology

: (“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

:-)

  1. An emoticon representing a smiley face.

Descendants
  • Russian: ) (internet slang)

Usage notes
  • Where it would otherwise precede a right parenthesis (")"), sometimes the two are combined so that only one right parenthesis is used.

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References
  1. “:) turns 25”, in CNN.com‎, 2007-09-20, retrieved 2007-09-20
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