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i consider emojis as the tonal element missing from text think of it as visual intonation (o) (o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_(linguistics) https

i consider emojis as the tonal element missing from text think of it as visual intonation (o) (o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_(linguistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_(linguistics)

danharaj 11y ago
I like your interpretation which ascribes intelligence and meaning to other peoples' behavior instead of the grandparent which seems to imply that the kids these days are just stupid and don't have any interesting thoughts to convey. You can't find the meaning in other peoples' behavior if you just assume it's meaningless from the get-go.
- justifier 11y ago
  :P
  - chris_wot 11y ago
    Oh, well played sir!
- mhurron 11y ago
  > kids these days are just stupid and don't have any interesting thoughts to convey. It's not kids these days, it's always been like this for everyone.
- justifier 11y ago
  the history of emoji coming from japanese culture is pertinent.. i am unable to speak for middle eastern or cyrillic languages due to a shameful unfamiliarity, but as for western and a majority eastern languages, the core of the japanese language is substantially, yet casually, more capable japanese is comprised of three alphabets: kanji : an enormous, complex, and ancient chinese character set katakana and hiragana: syllabic runes that bridge japanese phonemes to its own complex characters or even other languages the japanese even created a phoneme set using latin characters called romaji the japanese have a japanese numeral system but also use arabic numerals what's more is these elements of the language can all appear on the same poster one walks by while walking down the street and yet still more, those elements can all be meant to be read in different directions japanese texts are written horizontally and vertically japansese books can be printed and read either page flipped right to left, or similarly to the west, left to right one may argue a dislike for or refuse the use of emojis but it could be said that one of the most literate cultures in the world looked at their tools of communication and felt them wanting

danharaj 11y ago

I like your interpretation which ascribes intelligence and meaning to other peoples' behavior instead of the grandparent which seems to imply that the kids these days are just stupid and don't have any interesting thoughts to convey. You can't find the meaning in other peoples' behavior if you just assume it's meaningless from the get-go.

justifier 11y ago
:P
- chris_wot 11y ago
  Oh, well played sir!
mhurron 11y ago
> kids these days are just stupid and don't have any interesting thoughts to convey. It's not kids these days, it's always been like this for everyone.
justifier 11y ago
the history of emoji coming from japanese culture is pertinent.. i am unable to speak for middle eastern or cyrillic languages due to a shameful unfamiliarity, but as for western and a majority eastern languages, the core of the japanese language is substantially, yet casually, more capable japanese is comprised of three alphabets: kanji : an enormous, complex, and ancient chinese character set katakana and hiragana: syllabic runes that bridge japanese phonemes to its own complex characters or even other languages the japanese even created a phoneme set using latin characters called romaji the japanese have a japanese numeral system but also use arabic numerals what's more is these elements of the language can all appear on the same poster one walks by while walking down the street and yet still more, those elements can all be meant to be read in different directions japanese texts are written horizontally and vertically japansese books can be printed and read either page flipped right to left, or similarly to the west, left to right one may argue a dislike for or refuse the use of emojis but it could be said that one of the most literate cultures in the world looked at their tools of communication and felt them wanting