When I first met my wife she was sending me emojis/superhero stickers to try and get me to come sit with her and talk. It took me a while to read the signs, but I got it.
And yet someone checking us out with them takes our understanding of what we think they are an twists the truth to their narrative. Jailed no matter what the choice. ๐ฅบ |||
A really cool thing about emojis is that thereโs no canonical form. Like, in Unicode thereโs a conceptual letter (say) โeโ, and if you canโt tell something is an e then the fontโs wrong. But there is no underlying conceptual form of emojis. You could render ๐ as ๐ and it would not be wrong.
If I may use this example, ๐ came with just a label but no meaning. Somehow we all agreed, with a bit of testing and false steps, to all agree on the "if you know what I mean/no further questions" definition. It's a great example of the Internet actually coming together to agree on something!
This is what it felt like trying to date someone 4 years younger with an Android. That relationship 100% failed because we were speaking different languages.
Itโs semiotic semaphore; only thereโs no convenient flag poster, some of them go in & out of popular use (which affects implication if not meaning) and folks who need reading glasses can only guess which one weโre looking at which randomizes the whole process. ๐คฃ
I use emojis to mark sarcasm.
I have to use a different one every time, as none seem specific, and I can never remember which ones felt right in retrospect, and which I vowed never to use again.
So I think they're great ๐ฅธ
I read many years ago an article that celebrated how younger people had decided, without expensive meetings or three-day events or what have you, what emoji meant, and how it should be used....
....and as the internet changes around us, so the great big wild digital community continues to do that. Somehow we all concede when meanings or overuse changes, it's a great experiment in diplomacy and linguistics.
Thatโs exactly why I hate it when my phone tells me itโs going to upgrade later tonight when Iโm asleep. I wake up to hundreds of new emojis that I will never use. And I donโt even recognize what they are. Ugh!
And then someone uploads a custom one and is like "look it's Jerry" and then Jerry gets canned a month later and the emoji is there forever. Alas, poor Jerry.
read vs read, bass vs bass, wind vs wind, lead vs lead. And thatโs in *english*
can you imagine what it must have been like in ancient Egypt with hieroglyphics and their entire written language just straight up was emojis (with diction and structure and grammar and all that)? ๐ซ
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une tomate"?
โ๏ธ I said what I said
โThese symbolsโฆ what do they mean??โ - future archaeologists
๐
I'm laughing at president pettyman.
A very petty man.
๐
I have to use a different one every time, as none seem specific, and I can never remember which ones felt right in retrospect, and which I vowed never to use again.
So I think they're great ๐ฅธ
Emojis are inscrutable๐ค
But apparently itโs two broโs high fiving it out? IDFK
It's kinda like, do you get me, are we on the same page? ๐
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can you imagine what it must have been like in ancient Egypt with hieroglyphics and their entire written language just straight up was emojis (with diction and structure and grammar and all that)? ๐ซ