:) Smile
: ( Sad, anger, disappointment
; ) Wmking, just joking
:-1) Shock or surprise
;-} Leer
:cQ Smoker
:-@ Scream
For trivial e-mail, emoticons may be appropriate. But when communicating about serious topics to important people, they detract from your authority and distract the reader.
And as a second filter, if you find that you need to underscore the emotion with a smiley, make sure that a smiley will do the trick. A smiley won't disguise an offensive remark as a joke. And there is a bigger danger: After almost a decade of e-mail, emoticons are proliferating, and their meanings are by no means universal.
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