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> By the way, it's stupid that we still can't have user-defined [emojis]. Emojis should have only been embedded user-defined pngs. I know I'm being cranky and

• amelius 8y ago
  Yes. The problem is that it assumes that language is fixed. However, the correct way is to make emojis freely definable, so that the emoji language will continue to develop; of course, the unfortunate side-effect for character set maintainers would be that they have to expand the set in order to incorporate the new parts of the language. But that is their problem; you can't force a population to use a limited set of symbols.
  • thanatropism 8y ago
    > you can't force a population to use a limited set of symbols. It's called an "alphabet".
    • AsyncAwait 8y ago
      I think the point was "you can't force a population to use a limited set of symbols [that can't be used to express an arbitrary idea]".
      • thanatropism 8y ago
        Well, not yet.
    • amelius 8y ago
      ... which would not exist if people could not define their own symbols.