Slightly OT but it's interesting to study emotions across cultures to pick up on the primary visual clues they consider important. For example, western cultures express a lot of emotion by smiling, frowning and etc. Eyes usually stay fixated as colon, while the mouth alternates:
:) :( :O :|
Common Japanese emoticons on the other hand put more emphasis on the eyes while keeping the mouth fixed:
Oh man. So that's how it started!
ReplyDeleteSlightly OT but it's interesting to study emotions across cultures to pick up on the primary visual clues they consider important. For example, western cultures express a lot of emotion by smiling, frowning and etc. Eyes usually stay fixated as colon, while the mouth alternates:
:) :( :O :|
Common Japanese emoticons on the other hand put more emphasis on the eyes while keeping the mouth fixed:
(^_^) (>_
Oops... Let's try this again:
ReplyDelete(^_^) (>_<) (-_-)