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Reading about how they have carefully designed the pictures to prevent people from communicating certain things, it reminds me of the language in Orwell's 1984
by veltas 5y ago
Reading about how they have carefully designed the pictures to prevent people from communicating certain things, it reminds me of the language in Orwell's 1984 which was a simplistic and limited language designed to make it impossible to dissent.
- literalsunbear 5y agooh my god come on man
- veltas 5y agoIf you mention 1984 at all today, the anti-1984 police will come and complain that you'd dare compare anything in modern society to the dystopia in the book, even though I wasn't implying there was any repression. To me it's just an interesting similarity.
- literalsunbear 5y agoread a new book, i'm begging you
- veltas 5y agoI enjoy the prospect of finding out what novels you think are better or more suitable.
- whateveracct 5y agohave you considered that emojis are a lot of fun and can add to your "voice"?
- veltas 5y agoWhat did I say? I was just saying they literally tried to prevent you from saying specific things with the designs of the icons, and made the connection. I didn't say they weren't fun.
- jhgb 5y agoHave you considered that "fun" and "communication" are two different words and neither of them is in any way dependent on the other?
- cgrealy 5y agoThe important difference is that newspeak was designed to replace language whereas emojis supplement it. There are plenty of emojis that can be used to express dissent, skepticism or even out right anger.
- veltas 5y agoAnd as a general advantage emoji isn't trying to replace words. Nobody is (as far as I know) required to use emoji. People can pick and choose when they want them.
- xdennis 5y agoThe point is that it's a political choice to give people the ability to communicate through emojis while removing it from others (e.g. the gun example).
- xdennis 5y agoWeren't Unicode emojis designed to replace image emoticons?
- jazzyjackson 5y agoOTOH its a dictionary of ideograms that gets extended every year in a fairly democratic way: anyone can suggest or propose an emoji, which is quite different than the English Oxford Dictionary.