Reverse Emoticons

[Phyroxis]

What the hell is this

Seriously? When did this become acceptable by the internet community? Pretty soon we'll be writing from right to left.

 

[DoomDispenser]

When did emoticons become acceptable at all? I wish I was at that meeting.

EDIT: Wow spelling

 

[INF1NIT3 D00M]

D:
How could you possibly have a problem with that?
!eurt emoc sah raef tsrow ruoY !SEON HO

Haha. (Try reading THAT right to left)

But I don't see what the big deal is. Sometimes I need to express utter horror via emoticon, and I use "D:"
So take a chill pill...

 

[Handofpwn]

What exactly do you mean...?

D:
How could you possibly have a problem with that?
!eurt emoc sah raef tsrow ruoY !SEON HO

Haha. (Try reading THAT right to left)

But I don't see what the big deal is. Sometimes I need to express utter horror via emoticon, and I use "D:"
So take a chill pill...

lol, pretty easy to read...

 

[Phyroxis]

Well.. it was my understanding that the generally accepted reading/writing convention in the west, particularly with English languages, was that you read left to right and top down. This is also how you write.

When writing in a smiley face, the source generally being a real face, you read the face from left to right and top down. Since it is symmetrical, left to right becomes irrelevant and top down becomes the rule of transcription. Top is the eyes, down is the mouth.

Then when transcribing to print you write left to right, top down, eyes were first mouth was second.

Eyes :
Mouth )
Complete

Unless, of course, your subject is Jake Tucker. http://static.episode39.it/character/888.jpg

Reverse smilies just weird me out.