h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't use punctuation with smilies. I think they obviate the need for it.

It just doesn't look right.

It just doesn't look right .

It just doesn't look right

See? The third one of those definitely looks better to me.

I feel like the sentence is left hanging without punctuation to close it.

Much prefer the second.
Echo likes the first.

Now, this is a debate that needs resolving.

I just like Is that a grammatically correct thing to like?

Only if you share.

Trin, would you still not put a period after the chocolate, even though it's an actual word in the sentence?

Actually, for me, if the smiley is a word in the sentence, then it does go inside the punctuation. Thus:

I am the editor of , h2g2's newspaper.

Am I the editor of The Post?

Am I the editor of ?

I think I'm inclined to agree with you, about the going outside the punctuation.

Lemme try this out:

I found an elephant in the garden !
I found an elephant in the garden!
I found an elephant in the garden

He was obviously experiencing a craving for daffodils , which my painstaking labors had provided.
He was obviously craving daffodils, , which my arborary efforts had provided.
He was obviously craving daffodils which I'd provided.
He was obviousl craving daffodils, which my labors had provided.

(Note number two, where I treated as an interruption clause in the sentence...)

I offered him some , but it didn't interest him.
Then he caught sight of the flower tucked behind my ear.


For the YIKES one, I like the second, for the daffodils, I think I prefer Trin's way.

Crisis.

For the daffodils one, I think I'd wait till the end of the sentence to insert the smiley. It looks a bit intrusive when it isn't actually taking the place of a word.

I just don't know anymore...

Well, the groan smiley per se doesn't really belong there, but another smiley might. A "wow", for example, would be stuck in right after the thing that elicited the "wow"; In a compound sentence there might be something un-wow-ish after it.

>>The elephant had a master degree from Harvard , but it was in Botanical Identification of Jonquils Narcissus.

Or you could insist, for stylistic purposes, that all smilies be put at the end of sentences...

Nevermind. I don't think it could be stylized.