In an e-mail from me to Caff:
...hilariously witty comment ( ;–) ). Anyway hope that you're well...What's the convention for putting a smiley face in parentheses? They should really decide on these things before introducing them to the rest of the world. Seriously, why does no-one think of the consequences of introducing new technological gimmicks into common English usage? If you're looking for the first signs of mankinds enslavement to our robot overlords, look no further.
It's because he's been in America for too long.
The convention for using smileys inside parentheses is either you double the end parenthesis or you use the smiley's parenthesis as the end parenthesis. I can't remember where I read this, though.
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I feel that you simply wanted to use the word "Parentheses" in a post (:-p).
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