Is there an emoticon to express irony?

Question

I use irony rather often, but in written texts such as email I'm often afraid that it might be misinterpreted by the reader. Therefore I'd like to use an emoticon to make the irony explicit, but I'm not sure which one is most often used for this purpose.

Which one would be most suited?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '10 at 07:49

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There is punctuation for this purpose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark

answered Mar 12 '10 at 07:49

ta.speot.is

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '10 at 08:57

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I use :P for this purpose.

answered Mar 12 '10 at 08:57

geek

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '10 at 09:07

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If you are so stupid that you can't write irony in a recognisable form or your reader is too stupid to recognise it when you do use it, just don't use irony at all.

:P

answered Mar 12 '10 at 09:07

Neal

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Is there an emoticon to express irony?

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