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[–] molehill_siesta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, a friend of mine uses OTL as a "head-desk" emoticon and every time I'm just seeing letters and trying to expand the initialism.

It's easier when it's mixed or impossible punctuation, like O.O or T_T or things like that - signaling that "normal rules of letters combining into words are not valid here, look for a different pattern"

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Try as I might I can't see the OTL emoticon

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Head: O - Arms, neck, and torso: T - Kneeling legs: L