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If you feel compelled to put a smiley face after a sentence to make it more agreeable, it's a sign that you were uncomfortable with the tone of the sentence. Adding a smiley just comes across as passive aggressive or condescending. Just rewrite the original sentence so that you're comfortable with the tone, and omit the smiley.


Thank you very much. Sometimes things like this are not obvious to me and this will help me communicate better in the future.




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