Emoticons vary from region to region 
An interesting article which looks at how emoticons (characters symbolising human emotions) vary from region to region. As an example the article covers how western american and european smilies :) varies from the japanese smiley (^_^) :::
http://club.pep.ne.jp/~hiroette/en/facemarks/index.html

February 8, 2003 11:51 PM
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