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>Any kind of writing system allows this. The meaning of the words will change over time, but not the words themselves. So someone who reads it will know what
by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>Any kind of writing system allows this.
The meaning of the words will change over time, but not the words themselves. So someone who reads it will know what the words written actually were, and just have to lookup any differences in meeting between when the words were written and now.
Imagine for a second if we took Shakespeare and rewrote it with modern day English, and then made the claim the new version is the original Shakespeare... I think we would see the problem with that. But that is what happened with emoji. It isn't that people look back, see as collections of pixels, and realize now those pixels mean water gun while in the past they meant firearm. When they look back, they see water gun.
- masklinn 8y ago> The meaning of the words will change over time, but not the words themselves. 1. orthography also changes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s) 2. the purpose of words is to communicate concepts, if the meaning of the word changes the word itself has changed, reducing a word to its mere orthography is nonsensical
- paulddraper 8y agoWould you see any issues with Apple changing the orthography of the character f from "f" to "g"?
- artpepper2 8y agoguck yes!
- PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago>orthography also changes Not of things already written down. The long S written in the Constitution is still there. It has not changed, and there would be outrage for anyone to go and change it. Changing the emoji from one meaning to another would be like changing the encoding of utf-8 so that a now means e and e means a, meaning that and and end flips in every utf-8 encoded file that is viewed.