Useful? Wreckage mark on your mail!

I mentioned Japanese like to use ASCII art. And in daily mails we use emotion marks, like :-) . They are called Kaomoji. Many emotion marks (kaomoji) are made with 2byte characters, which the Japanese OS has. So I am sure it would be hard to use, or even see on your PC without a Japanese viewer. Here is a great site to explain everything and where you can see many emotion marks, and perhaps most importantly of all the site introduces emotions marks with 1byte letters that you can use.

Okay I will introduce some; the point is you need to think vertical. Here are some useful ones.
(^_^)/: Hi!
(>_<) : Shock
(^_^;): Embarrassed
(; _ ;) : Cry and sob
(T_T) : Big cry
(-_-) : zzz.......Like this!

Personally I do not like to use emotions marks, because I feel my emotions are diminished by the use of such a generalization.  However! Now I have a mark that I like. It is the "wreckage"  ○|￣|＿  mark. You know this break down position.  I wrote that we have a "No wrecked cup" as a joke, and the guy, that I introduced in this "An oppressed husband" post uses this "wreckage" mark a lot. Maybe we use that mark so often to show our run down feeling. In Japanese OS it is ○|￣|＿ , but in 1byte you can write "orz".

Oh my god!...orz.　　like this!

Comments

[Mari]

Hi Robert
you are so funny.

Hi Bjorn
yes sorry mark is good to show my apology.
When I aplogize, generalization is better :-).

Hi Gwen
Yes, I don't know shock mark is well "not clear", you know not complaing, not angry, we don't need to say but, still we can show our uneasy feeling. Typical Japanese way. ha ha ha

[robert]

me?.. I LOVE emoticons..in case nobody's figured that out yet. heh heh heh.
®rz

[Bjorn]

Hi Mari,
I found it funny that even emoticons in Japan are
cute! My favourite one is
m(__)m

(someone bowing deeply to apologize 'gomennasai...')

I don't like to use them a lot either, but there you go

(^-^)/

Bjorn

[Gwen]

（゜ﾛ　゜）
In the game, I always see Japanese people using this, when shock or for just to put a funny face ^^;