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30 Mar 2013, 5:20 pm

I've never been totally clear on what :P means...sometimes it seems to mean "just kidding" but then other times I can't figure it out. Does it have a variety of meanings or am I just oblivious to many of the jokes in text?


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30 Mar 2013, 5:22 pm

I've always thought of it as a way to express silliness.


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30 Mar 2013, 5:33 pm

Yeah, or "I can't believe I'm saying this" or "crazy but true" or "this is amusing" or "this is ridiculous".

It carries many shades of meaning, most of them positive. :P :D



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30 Mar 2013, 6:36 pm

I used to use it while expressing sweetness, but I use this image now.

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30 Mar 2013, 10:52 pm

Thanks for replying, guys!

It seems a bit like laughter -- people laugh for all sorts of reasons, some of them similar to the meanings you guys explained (e.g. silliness, amusement, surprise, delight, etc. etc.)... this smiley confuses me a lot more, though.

ThetaIn3D wrote:
It carries many shades of meaning, most of them positive. :P :D

Yay for examples! What does your smiley mean?

CockneyRebel wrote:
I used to use it while expressing sweetness, but I use this image now.

I really like the image you use to express sweetness -- spot on!


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31 Mar 2013, 12:58 am

animalcrackers wrote:
ThetaIn3D wrote:
It carries many shades of meaning, most of them positive. :P :D

Yay for examples! What does your smiley mean?


I like to make compound smileys or sequential smileys sometimes. So that one is meant to be as if I'm smiling after sticking out my tongue. Or it could also be interpreted as I'm sticking out my tongue in a smiling way, not a disgusted way. :)



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31 Mar 2013, 6:29 am

Well it wouldn't be used to convey depression now would it? :P


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31 Mar 2013, 7:49 pm

It's more of a silly face to me. :P



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31 Mar 2013, 8:53 pm

animalcrackers wrote:
Thanks for replying, guys!

It seems a bit like laughter -- people laugh for all sorts of reasons, some of them similar to the meanings you guys explained (e.g. silliness, amusement, surprise, delight, etc. etc.)... this smiley confuses me a lot more, though.

ThetaIn3D wrote:
It carries many shades of meaning, most of them positive. :P :D

Yay for examples! What does your smiley mean?

CockneyRebel wrote:
I used to use it while expressing sweetness, but I use this image now.

I really like the image you use to express sweetness -- spot on!


Thank you. :P


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01 Apr 2013, 7:33 pm

ThetaIn3D wrote:
I like to make compound smileys or sequential smileys sometimes. So that one is meant to be as if I'm smiling after sticking out my tongue. Or it could also be interpreted as I'm sticking out my tongue in a smiling way, not a disgusted way. :)


Thanks for explaining!

Everybody's posts have been very helpful -- I've got a better idea of what expressions the smiley goes with, which is great even if I don't always understand why the expressions might be there :D


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