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The 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
by cgrealy 5y ago
The 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?