What's the meaning?

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Araminta
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What's the meaning?

What do all those symbols mean.I would like to know at least some of them.Like these? Or others? M-L
( ')=
[llll]
/L L

Meave
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Hi Araminta - not sure just what help you need and not sure what you have seen things used for. Woko sounds like a person who can help you a lot. The ' within a word usually means that a letter is left out, like it's instead of it is. A single ' in a word can also mean ownership such as the cat's paws. A single ' or a double " on each side of a quote indicates someone speaking those words inside the "" as in "Hello". The brackets ( ) are for when you are sort of making a side comment within another sentence like saying "We look forward to Christmas (hope the weather is good)". The square brackets [ ] can sometimes be used as another comment within the first brackets, or just as an ordinary bracket. The = is just an equal sign often used just for maths but can be used otherwise also to show one thing is equal to another. The slash sign / is often an either/or sign like if you don't know if you should say he or she like he/she. Don't know if this is what you mean. If you see ~ or ~~ it is saying approximately or 'about this size'or 'roughly like this'. Hope this is a help but I may have just confused you.

Meave

Araminta
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Hi Meave,I don't think we are on the right track here. I do think we need a young person to explain, these are abreviations and have meanings people use when sdending messages. Come on kids, explain some of them to an old chook like me. M-L
Cooee uses them.Owen would know, but he is having a nice holiday right now.

M-L

Meave
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Had a feeling I was telling you what you already know - I did however know that you weren't born here and so might want ordinary meanings. I sympathise as I also don't often know what the young ones are talking about, I have however just given up on most of them. Good luck - the only one I know is LOL !!!

Meave

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( ')=
[llll]
/L L

is a duck

(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(")

is a rabbit

(_.._)
/ | \
| | |

kind of a jellyfish

and there's wayyy more :p

Araminta
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That rabbit looks so cute, thanks Nathan. Can you show me some of the shorter ones, like the :p ? I'm fascinated by this. M-L

M-L

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:p is just a face with a tounge sticking out
:o is a face with a open mouth,showing surprise
:x is someone with a closed mouth,in a sense "my mouth's shut"
:| is someone with a straight face,not smiling or crying
:\ is someone who's worried
:B is a nerd or a dork
:1 is someone with a nose,lol
basically,you just have to turn your head 90 degress anti-clockwise to get the picture

Woko
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NathanY, you're a genius. Now can you tell me how to pronounce these things?

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um,i don't think you can :p

and one more thing,if you don't mind,could you just call me Nathan,instead of NathanY?that would be appreciated :p

Woko
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Done, Nathan.

Araminta
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Thanks sooo much Nathan, you have enlightened me:o. I used to be such a :B. M-L :p

M-L

Woko
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I'm getting a stiff neck trying to interpret these symbols. That shouldn't :o anyone but it :\ me. Being such a :B maybe I should just :x.

Meave
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I haven't ever seen most of these, they are great! but I'll never remember what they all are! :B :(

Meave

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