Smile When You Type That
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Used by Ambrose Bierce in 1887, click the link to see it in action over at Google Books. What's funny is how many times this appears to have been invented:
Vladimir Nabokov commented in an interview with Alden Whitman of the New York Times in April 1969:
Q: How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past?
Nabokov: I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile – some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.
Used by Ambrose Bierce in 1887, click the link to see it in action over at Google Books. What's funny is how many times this appears to have been invented:
Vladimir Nabokov commented in an interview with Alden Whitman of the New York Times in April 1969:
Q: How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past?
Nabokov: I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile – some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.
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