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- comrademikhail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Hey, what's with the swastikas? Or are those peace symbols?"
"Buddhism has no reference in the story, even more so has nothing to do with swastikas. So why link to it?
The emoticon is for Shuri-kens, that's all."
Straight from the article itself:
"*Please note that this mark is not a Nazis swastika;the outer spokes rotate in the opposite direction, anti-clockwise. The version above, ( a Juumanji) has a long tradition (greatly predating the Nazis) of being used as symbol to represent Buddhist temples in Japan, and it is now used on maps for that purpose." - pupa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1> Buddhism has no reference in the story, even more so has nothing to do with swastikas. So why link to it?
Wrong. Swastikas have been used for hundreds of years by Hindus and Buddhists. The fact that you can't display a swastika in public now has more to do with intolerance and misunderstanding of Eastern culteres than anything else. - GlassMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I bet the japanese have plenty of dirty emoticons, they just don't publish them on a site because they are polite.
plus theres a reason they don't have as much an appreciation for boobs, if you think about it. - panic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The article says the (^_^) is two bytes and :-) is one byte. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldnt that be 5 and 3 bytes. Stupid article..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow i've been looking for this!!
- dolphumous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Miffi (nijntje) - The rabbit character by Dick Bruna
I don't care what they call it...those are boobs... - Moose_Head, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1(O()O)/
O Rly? - mattmeow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0=^_^=
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just before anyone thinks my swastika comments are too much, I want to be perfectly clear. I am Jewish, and any "real" swastika stuff, Nazi connotations, make me sick. I just wanted to point out some history.
- Nightkidz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is pretty interesting to know...!!!
- tehLazyPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0add:
+1 digg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#East_Asian_style
- kyleh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://club.pep.ne.jp/~hiroette/kaomoji/onegai.gif
that looks like something else,
not,Asking for a favor - DiscoLoke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WOW the JAPANESE sure make evrything high tech... even ***** smileys hah :P
- godmode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how could they not include "kita!"??
ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━ !!!!! - umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0(o)(o)
- MedHead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who would spend that much time writing out letter pictures than to simply say "I'm crying", or "I give up"?!
- Trjn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0(o|o)
ULTRAMAN!
The article was worth it simply for that one.
But in all honestly, I use a combination of Eastern and Western smileys. . .
Tis just easier, the western ones: XD :p and more
the eastern ones: ^^ o_O -.-;; and more
If you ask me, its more a matter of vertical vs horizontal, because when using smileys, they're simply a matter of convenience. - MattZed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice.. dugg
- WillyCornbread, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can digg it.
- jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0(o'-')b
- theImposs1ble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0too bad i hate emotiocons... and all the japaneese ones look like cartman from southpark
so uhhh, dont forget to bring a towel. - kirakun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For a moment, I thought those were japanese words. hehe.
- fibber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0At last something worth digging!
I'm Japanese and was still confused with it all. Thanks. - Senescence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0amazing article! I dugg this so hard!
I didnt see them included but some that Ive learned from Japanese TV and the Mrs. are as follows...
orz - digghotdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Orz
OGC
囧rz.....
These comes from Taiwan - Muzical84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've seen this before, but still cool.
- Midnightbrewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My girlfriend made one especially for me for when I do something stupid (It's supposed to be her punching me): (x.x(O=(-_-#)
- YoshoKatana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^_^ Some of them have been used for a long time, some I've never seen before。
私は日本語が大輔です。
Does it display correctly? Some might need to download the Language pack, or the IME to see it on WinXP English Ed. (Although I think Microsoft should have included it by default... >_> ) - Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WTF shaddup about swastikas, they're shurikens.
Sweet article. I've seen a lot of those emoticons while playing Counter Strike. Never realized they were 1337 aZn versions of emoticons. - breakneckridge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Weird, whether a happy or sad face the mouth never changes, just the eyes change.
- Loyaleagle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0a little scary...but interesting
- hypermint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0man this is old i remember looking at this site before digg was ever around. But anyway nice to see it again. +digg
- ShosuroYuu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lame you can't copy and past some of the kaomoji
- essrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OLD, but still diggworthy
- peace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
Obsession88 you mean ... (.)(.) ? - aznboi04k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0their emoticon are too long.
- glassjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0(^o^)/
- CoolSilver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been using this style of emoticons for at least 5 years. ^__~
- wuleidando, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0(="!"=) - kitty
(+"@"+) - piggy
('') -birddy
( ' ./ ' ) - mousie
(*|..|*/) - horsie
(>"." - YoshoKatana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Agh! I wrote that wrong! I apologize!!
私は日本語ガ大好きです。
Again, I apologize. I'm still learning. - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^_^
- noodhoog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Panic: "The article says the (^_^) is two bytes and :-) is one byte. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldnt that be 5 and 3 bytes. Stupid article.."
You're wrong.
The article is referring to the fact that some of the japanese style emoticons use characters that are two bytes each (i.e. the extended japanese unicode symbols), whereas our western style ones use single byte (ASCII) characters. - GreatChicken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually, 'asking for favor' is usually used for 'I bow to your superiority' more.
Funny that list... most of us asians don't even bother with the brackets. _> - YoshoKatana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ack! That "ga" was written in katakana. It should be hirugana. I apologize again!!
- kjones2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0here's a cat, a fish, & a mouse:
http://www.goodstorm.com/item/afunpov4/emoticon_twist_1
but the mouse is different from the one above:
( ' ./ ' ) - Obsession88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pretty cool
The only emote you'll every need (o)(o) - oldcyborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dig the article, but was disappointed by the emoticons. Maybe if I was Japanese... I dunno. No Matter.. :)
Cyborg
ya - tehLazyPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awsome, ive been using these for years... ^_^;
- lws07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Chapter 2, Asking for a Favor- does this not look like a pair of butt cheeks? And it's titled 'asking for a favor,' HAHA
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