First important question of the new year:

[Luphrous]

Who nose if we'll ever get to the bottom of this?

 

[Oblivion IX]

It's clearly a mouth! The idea never even crossed my mind that it could be nose.

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Same scenerio...

Not sure what to say about this, however.

 

[Philip7086]

It's clearly a mouth! The idea never even crossed my mind that it could be nose.

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Same scenerio...

Not sure what to say about this, however.

...what? ok now that is 100% a nose, i don't see how anybody can see otherwise.

 

[Aerodactyl Legend]

To me that's always looked better as a mouth on Dogbert. Makes look like even more of a jerk, lol.

 

[GlassAbsol]

I always thought that faces using letters such as n.n or 6.6 had the . as a nose and just showed the eyes, as a lot of expressions can be deduced from someone's eyes. I just assumed because of the shape of it and the relative distances, -.- was the eyes and the nose showing a superb amount of fucks being given.
Eh, could be either, but I maintain that it's a nose.

 

[Philip7086]

To me that's always looked better as a mouth on Dogbert. Makes look like even more of a jerk, lol.

I'm now convinced this is all just one massive troll now.

 

[Aerodactyl Legend]

No serious, I remember looking at some the strips when I was 5 or somethin. We even have a couple of those large collections and he never turns enough so you see it sticking out mcuh, haha. Then in one of them, he mentions his nose, and I was like, "oh." Pretty easy to see it now.

 

[Fishy]

it's completely a nose. it's one of those faces where the mouth is going to be just as stone faced as the rest of the emote obv since it's - - for the eyes and the nose is just like .

if you want to see the mouth this is what it looks like -.-

 

[Fishy]

okay and how about THIS argument

where is the kitty's mouth???

=^.^=

 

[Mastadi]

Why couldn't it be both, depending on the context?
it's usually a nose though
!!!

 

[capefeather]

=^.^=
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This cat looks kinda sick...

 

[v]

The dot on dogbert is a nose and if you disagree I am not sure what to tell you...

that's a dog see how his nose is a black dot?

 

[kd24]

the dogbert is clearly a nose but -.- is not dogbert, its a disgruntled "are you kidding me" look with the tightened lips of disapproval

 

[Stalfos]

is it weird that I see the . as a mouth in -.- but as a nose in ^.^
help

 

[Bummer]

At some point we are going to be forced to admit that images and symbols we see are interpreted individually by first impressions and earlier experience, thus making a definite answer unlikely if not impossible.

But I disgress, let's bash opinions for 5 more pages.

 

[Minwu]

shut the fuck upo

 

[HardCore]

This isn't hard to see at all lol. It's definitely a nose. If it were a mouth I'm sure the face would be more like this -o- , It doesn't look cool but looks more like a mouth than -.-

 

[Tortferngatr]

This isn't hard to see at all lol. It's definitely a nose. If it were a mouth I'm sure the face would be more like this -o- , It doesn't look cool but looks more like a mouth than -.-

This isn't hard to see at all lol. It's definitely a mouth. If it were a nose I'm sure the face would be more like this -∆- , It doesn't look cool but looks more like a nose than -.-

 

[canno]

It's a mouth, who the fuck has a nose that's just a dot? (fuck you, other animals)

 

[Danmire]

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
it's a mouth right

 

[Darkaxis]

It's a mouth -.- its a mouth -_- different emoticons same feelings

 

[Matthew]

If you vote mouth you fully admit to having a brain the size of said mouth.

 

[doomvendingmachine]

If you vote mouth you fully admit to having a brain the size of said mouth.

"Let's see, who's down in the poll.... ok nose is losing by a lot I guess that's hipster enough for me"

 

[Tortferngatr]

If you vote mouth you fully admit to having a brain the size of said mouth.

If you vote nose you fully admit to having a brain the size of said nose.

I can do this all night long.

 

[askaninjask]

Moral of the story is: even people with the same name can often be split upon issues such as this one!

As I said before, I do believe it is a mouth, but I have a somewhat more educated opinion now. The emoticon -.-, like all emoticons, is meant to express an emotion, and the parts of the face that signify emotion are the eyes and mouth. There's a great quote from The Great Gatsby where Nick Carraway says of Meyer Wolfsheim, the jew who fixed the World Series, that he has a "very expressive nose." The oddity of this quote only proves my point! It's extremely odd to think of a nose as expressing an emotion.

Therefore, it is a mouth. Smileys just don't have noses in them :-/