Verbalizing emoticons

Pet peeve: people that use IM acronyms in verbal (i.e. face-to-face or phone) conversation, eg. lol, rofl, brb, etc.

Response: verbalizing emoticons 'colon end parenthesis'

I less than three colon capital 'D', open parenthesis open curly brace end parenthesis, semi-colon end parenthesis, colon open parenthesis, and armmove

And for those of you used to right-to-left languages, open parenthesis colon

open parenthesis 'a' end parenthesis


Warning to xkcd: don't rip me off this time!