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Correct.So when I type a 'colon' : and a 'close brackets' ) to produce a regular 'smiley' thusly this is producing the 'smiley' from a stored version within this site and not from a general 'emoji store' elsewhere on t'internet then?
'a colon and a closed bracket' is a shortcut that the board has been told to translate into a request for the smiley that is located at the URL we gave it.
if you could be bothered to learn the ones you use regularly, you need never open the smiley menu.
Many, as you can see, are words with a colon before and after them: