I still prefer ASCII style smilies to emojies ;-) I promise to never do that on ...

ksaj · on Dec 3, 2019

My sister pointed out that I'm a little random about mixing them. I use both, based solely on what I feel like typing at the time. And I'm acutely aware that the emojis she sees are not the ones I do, but the ASCII ones are pretty much the same, since I use Android and she's an Apple-head.

Besides, I love the slobbering ASCII guy ;-p~~~~ None of the emojis let you amplify slobber according to need like that.

schindlabua · on Dec 3, 2019

One emoji I wish I had a good ASCII alternative for is :thinking: U+1F914. There is :^) but only the skype generation will make sense of that.

commandlinefan · on Dec 3, 2019

I've changed my emoji writing style from the canonical ;) to ; ) just so that editors won't auto "correct" my proper ASCII emoji into an unholy yellow winking face.

jimnotgym · on Dec 3, 2019

That is a great tip! I wish I had thought of that : )