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No they do not. I've seen a LOT of smsesque text that come from all sorts of different people who i'm 100% they are not trying to "appear dumber". I do not know

by Crinus 7y ago

No they do not. I've seen a LOT of smsesque text that come from all sorts of different people who i'm 100% they are not trying to "appear dumber". I do not know why people do it, so i assume laziness. Smart people can be lazy too.

sjg007 7y ago
Soon we will be writing in emojis.
pests 7y ago
In the end all writing or speech is about communicating an idea. My opinion is these people have learned it doesn't matter. If an idea can be conveyed in smsesque and still get the point across while being quicker to write, then why not? I have a feeling power/authority/expert status matters here because the listeners will power through unclear communication just to gleam a glimpse of the underlying idea from this idol.
- blondin 7y ago
  exactly! i am reading all these replies and i found them really interesting. i think the same people being annoyed by sms-like writing, would get mad at me not using proper casing with my sentences. at the end of the day, i think it does not matter. i am not writing a book or an article. and when i am texting, i would rather keep it short, sms-like. i would like to understand, truly, why people get mad at such things. it has nothing to do with being disrespectful or anything. last time someone was mad at a particular emoji. i believe it's the next form of shortening messages. and guess what? i would rather have an emoji than type a sms-like message. maybe some of us just like being efficient?
  - NateEag 7y ago
    Emoji are a terrible insult to the written word. They're also an affront to imagery. Standard images, at least, are the same image everywhere. A grid of pixels is a grid of pixels. Emoji, however, vary from platform to platform, so what you pick may well not be what your reader sees. In some cases that may matter, in others it may not. Furthermore, some people construct new meanings and usages for emoji that do not align with the actual descriptions from the Unicode standard. You'll only realize this if they tell you, of course. I had one of those moments with my wife a few weeks ago. I'm still (irrationally) upset that emoji are in Unicode. They're ambiguous, ill-defined, and they are certainly not characters in the multilingual support sense of the word. Do I use them? Yes, grudgingly, and I hate myself a little bit every time I do it.
    - enriquto 7y ago
      Emoji are part of the natural oscillation of written language history between ideographic and phonetic. It has happened several times in history, there's nothing to worry about.

by Crinus 7y ago

sjg007 7y ago

Soon we will be writing in emojis.

pests 7y ago

In the end all writing or speech is about communicating an idea. My opinion is these people have learned it doesn't matter. If an idea can be conveyed in smsesque and still get the point across while being quicker to write, then why not? I have a feeling power/authority/expert status matters here because the listeners will power through unclear communication just to gleam a glimpse of the underlying idea from this idol.

blondin 7y ago
exactly! i am reading all these replies and i found them really interesting. i think the same people being annoyed by sms-like writing, would get mad at me not using proper casing with my sentences. at the end of the day, i think it does not matter. i am not writing a book or an article. and when i am texting, i would rather keep it short, sms-like. i would like to understand, truly, why people get mad at such things. it has nothing to do with being disrespectful or anything. last time someone was mad at a particular emoji. i believe it's the next form of shortening messages. and guess what? i would rather have an emoji than type a sms-like message. maybe some of us just like being efficient?
- NateEag 7y ago
  Emoji are a terrible insult to the written word. They're also an affront to imagery. Standard images, at least, are the same image everywhere. A grid of pixels is a grid of pixels. Emoji, however, vary from platform to platform, so what you pick may well not be what your reader sees. In some cases that may matter, in others it may not. Furthermore, some people construct new meanings and usages for emoji that do not align with the actual descriptions from the Unicode standard. You'll only realize this if they tell you, of course. I had one of those moments with my wife a few weeks ago. I'm still (irrationally) upset that emoji are in Unicode. They're ambiguous, ill-defined, and they are certainly not characters in the multilingual support sense of the word. Do I use them? Yes, grudgingly, and I hate myself a little bit every time I do it.
  - enriquto 7y ago
    Emoji are part of the natural oscillation of written language history between ideographic and phonetic. It has happened several times in history, there's nothing to worry about.