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Don't be fooled by the pretty images. While painting/photos can express multiple, deep emotions, they are unique. The value added by a copy it's none. Moreove
by _ZeD_ 8y ago
Don't be fooled by the pretty images.
While painting/photos can express multiple, deep emotions, they are unique. The value added by a copy it's none.
Moreover emojis are for 99%+ simple nouns ("hand", "pig", "dog", "smile"). And for thing that are not nouns, you still need to understand that they are logograms, with a "fixed" meaning. Kanjis are not better than Romans - they are just different alphabets.
And if you think about it long enough you will find that there is already a 1-to-1 mapping behind the "emojis" and the words (by definition, the unicode is the mapping of numbers - the code point, to meanings - the name, and to images - the pictogram, so you can have U+1F436 associated to 'DOG FACE' and ) , so they are "informationally dense equals" between each others.
- chongli 8y agoThe real advantage of emojis (and the reason I suspect most people use them) is to compensate for the loss of body language in texting. I use them so much when talking to one friend in particular that she can tell something is wrong when I stop using them for a little while.
- int_19h 8y agoThat was the original intent, right there in the name, back when they were still emoticons. But well, you don't need ice cream cones and airplanes to compensate for loss of body language, unless you routinely pantomime those things.