Simple question which I'm sure will attract negligable interest. In the emerging world of internet grammar, do smilies count as full stops? What is the proper application of the smilie? Is it :
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I feel the traditional period is required, yet its placement after the smilie looks awkward, while the placement before the smilie separates the smilie from the sentence it applies to. I've been posting (far too much) for years now, yet can't see an obvious syntactic solution.
I know what you're trying to do there. And I'm not falling for it!
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I know what you're trying to do there . And I'm not falling for it !
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I know what you're trying to do there And I'm not falling for it
I feel the traditional period is required, yet its placement after the smilie looks awkward, while the placement before the smilie separates the smilie from the sentence it applies to. I've been posting (far too much) for years now, yet can't see an obvious syntactic solution.