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A friend asked if he could crash at my place one night and said “don’t worry if not, I got options” followed by the nail-painting emoji. How do you express tha
by bambataa 8y ago
A friend asked if he could crash at my place one night and said “don’t worry if not, I got options” followed by the nail-painting emoji.
How do you express that in ASCII emoticons?
- morsch 8y agoI wouldn't even know how to express it in words. This may or may not be an example of it -- for all I know it's a commonly used one with a well-established metaphoric meaning --, but I think emoji usage is strangely idiosyncratic.
- komali2 8y ago"hahah, no worries, if you don't come maybe I'll just paint my nails or something"
- udp 8y agoYou missed the joke.
- komali2 8y agoDid I? Maybe emoticons aren't as universal as we're assuming then ;)
- ripdog 8y agoI did too. Perhaps if emoji are such an ambiguous method of communication, they aren't so good after all? That isn't an isolated instance of emoji confusion for me, either. Apart from the basic facial expression emoji, for me they're a great way of making a sentence more confusing.
- sanderjd 8y agoIt's hard to say how to express that, since I have absolutely no idea what it means :) If I got that message I would be pretty confused. Is the other option literal nail-painting or is it just sarcasm?
- bambataa 8y agoThe nail-painting one can be used to be a bit ‘sassy’, so it’s like saying “don’t worry, I know other ways to find myself a bed for the night ;-)” but in a more nuanced way that I at least find funnier. It’s probably not a universal meaning but my point is that emojis can be used to express more than just basic emoticon ‘UNIVERSAL EXPRESSION OF HUMAN HAPPINESS’ style things.