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> I never really see people use them purely to replace words one-for-one. This article does that. Here it might be more often than the author would normally do
by zck 6y ago
> I never really see people use them purely to replace words one-for-one.
This article does that. Here it might be more often than the author would normally do, but I've seen things like that non-ironically.
> To stay relevant in the age of social media you had to support emoji or you were in the .
EDIT: HN stripped the emoji. The end of that sentence was "or you were :skull: in the :droplet:", read as "or you were dead in the water".
- lovegoblin 6y ago> Here it might be more often than the author would normally do, but I've seen things like that non-ironically. Maybe not ironically, but doing that definitely adds informality - exactly the kind of out-of-band context that GP is talking about.