jolie,
that's a good question.
the way i'm able to use and identify emoticons is by reading the text that appears immediately to the right of a given emoticon.
for example:
(colon) wave (colon)
(colon) lol (colon)
(colon) aw (colon)
(colon) shock (colon)
(colon) giggle (colon)
(colon) roll (colon)
(colon) ty (colon)
(colon) deaf (colon)
as for the 
and 
emoticons, i know that by typing a colon followed by a capital letter D or a colon followed by a closed parenthesis, i can create both of these emoticons.
you may not know this, but if you type a colon followed by the text of the emoticon you'd like to use along with another colon, you can make its' respective picture appear.
for example, if i type (colon) giggle (colon), the giggle emoticon appears.
does that make sense, jolie?
