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Where are the emojis for pain? And why are there so many happy family emojis? People (and "corporate people") who care enough to get emojis put in by buy votes

by Y_Y 8y ago

Where are the emojis for pain? And why are there so many happy family emojis? People (and "corporate people") who care enough to get emojis put in by buy votes at the Unicode Club seem to have super weird values totally detached from humans who send each other messages.

rarec 8y ago
I'm not sure people who would want pain emojis care enough to buy votes at the club. Besides, at least as far as Discord/Slack goes, most people I've found just upload their own little emoticons as they are more meaningful and great for inside jokes on a particular server/team.
detaro 8y ago
Have any "pain" emojis been rejected, or has merely nobody officially proposed them? (which anyone can do, no club membership required)
- paulddraper 8y ago
  IDK, but either way the end result is a system which is unuseful for expressing common ideas.
  - cryptonector 8y ago
    In Japanese, ideographs (Kanji) are paired with syllabic characters (Hiragana) to express things which Kanji alone cannot. Foreign words are spelled in Katakana (another syllabic script). There's also romaji -- a way of writing Japanese in the familiar Latin alphabet. Incompleteness is manifestly NOT a problem for an ideographic script.
- voxadam 8y ago
  The Unicode Consortium publishes a list of all the requests made to the Emoji Subcommittee.[1] [1] http://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html http://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html
Semirhage 8y ago
Maybe it’s just that people tend to use emojis for shallow, often humorous exchanges. If you have to express pain, using an emoji seems like a bizarre way to go about it rather than employing language.
- eat_veggies 8y ago
  Is that inherent to emojis, or is it a symptom of the current set of emojis being shallow and humorous?
kanox 8y ago
:(
- airstrike 8y ago
  3:
lainga 8y ago
There's no time to cry / Happy, happy!
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kyle-rb 8y ago
Generally my go-to "upset" emoji are upside-down-smiley, or crying-laughing plus gun (still a real gun at least in Discord).
pshc 8y ago
Emojis representing states of suffering number in the double digits.

by Y_Y 8y ago

rarec 8y ago

I'm not sure people who would want pain emojis care enough to buy votes at the club. Besides, at least as far as Discord/Slack goes, most people I've found just upload their own little emoticons as they are more meaningful and great for inside jokes on a particular server/team.

detaro 8y ago

Have any "pain" emojis been rejected, or has merely nobody officially proposed them? (which anyone can do, no club membership required)

paulddraper 8y ago
IDK, but either way the end result is a system which is unuseful for expressing common ideas.
- cryptonector 8y ago
  In Japanese, ideographs (Kanji) are paired with syllabic characters (Hiragana) to express things which Kanji alone cannot. Foreign words are spelled in Katakana (another syllabic script). There's also romaji -- a way of writing Japanese in the familiar Latin alphabet. Incompleteness is manifestly NOT a problem for an ideographic script.
voxadam 8y ago
The Unicode Consortium publishes a list of all the requests made to the Emoji Subcommittee.[1] [1] http://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html http://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html

Semirhage 8y ago

Maybe it’s just that people tend to use emojis for shallow, often humorous exchanges. If you have to express pain, using an emoji seems like a bizarre way to go about it rather than employing language.

eat_veggies 8y ago
Is that inherent to emojis, or is it a symptom of the current set of emojis being shallow and humorous?

kanox 8y ago

airstrike 8y ago
3:

lainga 8y ago

There's no time to cry / Happy, happy!

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kyle-rb 8y ago

Generally my go-to "upset" emoji are upside-down-smiley, or crying-laughing plus gun (still a real gun at least in Discord).

pshc 8y ago

Emojis representing states of suffering number in the double digits.