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A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.
Dictionary.com lists keysmash as both a noun ("I typed a keysmash") and a verb ("I keysmashed a response"), dating the term to sometime between 1995 and 2000. [1]The first commonly used variation of "keysmashing" appeared and possibly first majorly originated from the Turkish internet sphere, where the so-called "random laugh", or "random" (as said in Turkish) has been in use since at least ...
English does not have a labial click (or any click consonant, for that matter) as a phoneme, but a plain bilabial click does occur in mimesis, as a lip-smacking sound children use to imitate a fish. Labial clicks only occur in the Tuu and Kx'a families of southern Africa, and in the Australian ritual language Damin .
These are lip-smacking sounds, but often without the pursing of the lips found in a kiss, that occur in words in only a few languages. The above clicks sound like affricates, in that they involve a lot of friction. The next two families of clicks are more abrupt sounds that do not have this friction.
“So the reason my lips look like I had filler — I’ve got naturally big lips, right, I don’t need filler — the reason I looked like a different person was because I was sulking. I was ...
The extensions to the IPA also define a bilabial percussive ( ⓘ) for smacking the lips together. A lip-smack in the non-percussive sense of the lips audibly parting would be [ʬ↓]. [7] The IPA chart shades out bilabial lateral consonants, which is sometimes read as indicating that such sounds are not possible.
Cheek kissing, pressing one's lips to another person's cheek, may show friendship or greeting. Duck face, a popular gesture among teenagers which involves puckering lips. The gesture is often used as a "funny face" when taking pictures. Fish lips: sucking the lips in a manner that makes the mouth look like one of a fish.
Flaming, also known as roasting, is the act of posting insults, often including profanity or other offensive language, on the internet. [1] Flaming is distinct from trolling, which is the act of someone causing discord online or in person.