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Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.
by cholantesh 10y ago
Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.
- zamalek 10y agoI find that they're often too cutesy or overstated. In Whatsapp for example, they come across as incredibly flirtatious.
- georgespencer 10y agoThe winking smile should be jokey but I can only interpret it as flirty nowadays ;)
- jharger 10y agoI use the winking with tongue sticking out to mean a joke... but I don't know if everyone else interprets it that way ;) (that was a flirty wink)
- kbenson 10y agoSince I alternate between the smile and winking smile about evenly, you're making me reconsider my past text conversations. ;)
- Cthulhu_ 10y agoI think it's a cultural thing - or more precisely, a non-culture-specific thing, which should be as unoffensive as possible. Honestly, I don't envy those that design and publish emojis, it's a cultural minefield. :-) has no color, gender, outfit or what-have-you. There's been a lot of debate about the skin tone of e.g. the thumbs up emoji (which now comes in half a dozen colors if the relatively ambiguous / non-human yellow isn't to your needs), the gender of emojis depicting jobs, and the color of outfits of emojis depicting jobs.
- rdiddly 10y agoThe smiley is an efficient general-purpose abstraction of reality; the emoji is a million instances of copy-pasted overly-specific code.
- jobigoud 10y agoEmojis are in Unicode. They aren't parsed or converted to multiple glyphs anymore, the text editor will provide them directly. http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html I was doubtful of emojis at first, but now I'm loving the concept. They really help me communicate emotions that I wouldn't put into actual words. Smileys can't really do that. Culturally I see it as a the first universal (limited) language, using standardized ideograms. Maybe in a few decades we can express full sentences and we will have a written language for all Humans to use. 21st century hieroglyphs.
- calt 10y agoThere have been attempts a universal language that are quite fascinating. There's an interesting RadioLab on the subject of Bissymbols. I suppose the one that sticks and evolves over time is the one that probably matters though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols http://www.radiolab.org/story/257194-man-became-bliss/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/257194-man-became-bliss/
- teddyh 10y agoMaxor~ ellioid; s~h~ush UPCOM, shud shout aout aout. Ellioté brooghund brooghund.
- ximeng 10y agoSee for example the translation of moby dick into emoji as a prototype of emoji as language
- Aexian 10y agoAs a college student, I use emoji constantly to communicate all sorts of abstract sentiments, but in my experience they can also be irritatingly ambiguous and highly dependent on cultural norms and interpretation. Take the thumbs up emoji - within my social circles, the exact same emoji can be interpreted both as a enthusiastic agreement ("Sure!") and also as a sarcastic affirmation ("Good for you."). It's often difficult to infer the intended meaning, even with context, and in some circumstances I've found emojis have actually added significantly to the ambiguity and cognitive burden in parsing a text. That's not a problem I have often faced with simple smileys.
- dredmorbius 10y agoKyle McLaughlan explains a former project: https://ello.co/codenamesarah/post/s9dx9cx_iw6ytktbugjwmq https://ello.co/codenamesarah/post/s9dx9cx_iw6ytktbugjwmq
- cholantesh 10y agoEmauj'ib