First important question of the new year:

[Mastadi]

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 :-/

The only reason the nose is used in this emote is because it would look rather silly as --

 

[KnightoftheWind]

:)

The right bracket is not a mouth, just a very large nose.

 

[Acklow]

o.O is a nose then? I thought that was more or less a surprised look with a small mouth.....

>.>

 

[Matthew]

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

Doom, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah's album last year was stellar

 

[Granstafer]

:)

The right bracket is not a mouth, just a very large nose.

then why is it then when you type it into Microsoft word it comes up with a smiley face without a nose... XD

I never thought of the . in -.- to be a nose anyway. Really, how many expressions can you show with a nose... its just a piece of cartilage sticking out from your face.

 

[Jimbo]

-:-

that's how i see it, it's a mouth, all pursed and exasperated

exactamundo! the -.- face is the disappointed/exasperated face and the pursed lips adds to it. stupid aldaron

 

[az]

so i conducted an experiment and made myself see it as a mouth and i can now safely say as one of the few to have walked onthe other side~~~~

that it is shit with a mouth and superior with a nose wooo nose wooo

 

[Solace]

az funck it is CLEARLY a mouth

-.-

 

[Ryfle]

i always thought it was a nose .-.

 

[Fishy]

i cannot for the life of me see it as a mouth. it's too little. it's a dot. it's a nose.

-.-

 

[More Cowbell]

Something like this I suppose

 

[Mastadi]

Hide

Something like this I suppose

Why is the diglett getting taller in every frame???

 

[More Cowbell]

Why is the diglett getting taller in every frame???

To add to the drama of course

Edit: and obviously he loses weight in the process

 

[Yuki [old]]

i always saw -.- as a moogle's eyes and nose

in a lot of the ff games the moogle's mouth simply disappears when it's not talking or going kupo~

i'm not entirely sure what emotion a moogleface is supposed to convey however, be it mouth or nose

 

[Thundur]

Obviously a nose. ._. < that's a mouth

 

[Kier]

ONE TIME ALDARON MASTURBATED R.I.P. ALDARON'S DICK

@:¬€

 

[King Serperior]

Nose, plain and simple.

Everone who thinks otherwise had their minds addled by a hateful Hypno.

 

[biggie]

Always has been a nose in my eyes. Can't see it as a mouth.

 

[Tortferngatr]

Nose, plain and simple.

Everone who thinks otherwise had their minds addled by a hateful Hypno.

Mouth, plain and simple.

Everone who thinks otherwise had their minds addled by a hateful Hypno.

-.- as a nose looks like a sleeping Pomeranian's face, which does not convey the expression very well. As a mouth, -.- conveys the expression VERY well.

 

[Accent]

Always has been a nose in my eyes.

wat

 

[LonelyNess]

So, can we get a lock on this thread and get a ban the 77 people who voted nose since i'm pretty sure there are laws against mental retardation on the internet.

 

[TsukasaSIGN]

I forgot that humans were given dots as mouths. Whoops, I better change my vote.

 

[Eiganjo]

i cannot for the life of me see it as a mouth. it's too little. it's a dot. it's a nose.

-.-

this!
plus if you want it to be a moth do -_-
looks more like one !

 

[Nastyjungle]

its almost like some people in this thread don't understand that we have a wide variety of facial expressions and can pucker or purse our lips

 

[dozer]

-.-

I've naturally always seen it as a mouth, although I can see it as a nose if I try hard enough.