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Some food for thought, the younger segment of the online neurodivergent community has come up with a solution to this problem: "tone indicators"[1]. They are se

Some food for thought, the younger segment of the online neurodivergent community has come up with a solution to this problem: "tone indicators"[1]. They are semifrequently seen in the art spaces I hang out in. If you've seen "/s" on Reddit, you've probably seen a tone indicator. [1]: https://toneindicators.carrd.co/ https://toneindicators.carrd.co/

userbinator 5y ago
I've never heard of "tone indicators" before, but I've seen the usage of "/s" for a long time to indicate sarcasm, possibly as early as the 90s.
- 411111111111111 5y ago
  It was extremely frequently used on IRC back then Emojis as well, though they were pure ASCII, not the emoticons of today
  - jazzyjackson 5y ago
    the ASCII faces are the emoticons, emoji means "picture character" and includes all the UTF8 cartoons.
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    - 411111111111111 5y ago
      both terms were coined after UTF-8 and after people started to replace the character strings like :) with pictures. emojis are technically the UTF-8 style emoticons, so you do have a point that i shouldn't call ascii style emoticons this, but its really a redundant distinction in my opinion. Especially as the term emoticon also applies to emojis/picture representations of ascii-style emoticons.
      - forgotpwd16 5y ago
        Unicode indeed has an emoticon block (referring to emojis with facial expression) but the term actually predates the very UTF-8 itself going back to early 80s. Emoji also predates its Unicode introduction originating from Japan in late 90s.
        411111111111111 5y ago
        what source do you have that the term 'emoticon' was coined in the 80th? As far as I know, the term was coined in the 90th. Please take note that i've - from the start, talked about the term, not the usage of punctuation to show faces
        sesqu 5y ago
        Here's a reference to the term from 1987: https://archive.org/details/ParalanguageInElectronicMail-ACaseStudy/page/n145/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/ParalanguageInElectronicMail-ACa...
Leparamour 5y ago
> https://toneindicators.carrd.co/ https://toneindicators.carrd.co/ Wow, they're actually using the term 'masterlist'. I'm pretty triggered right now. /s
- paulddraper 5y ago
  ikr should be 'mainlist'
robotron 5y ago
No /jk? What is this?
flanbiscuit 5y ago
Wow, I never knew there was a whole list of these! I love this, they are very clear. Usually searching through emoji I'll pick one purely based on how it looks and not realizing it really has a different meaning than I intended. For instance, I've used the 'sad-but-relieved-face'[1] emoji before but probably just to convey slightly sad and never to include the relieved part. In fact, I didn't know until I just went searching for emojis just now that it was meant to convey relief. 1. https://emojipedia.org/sad-but-relieved-face/ https://emojipedia.org/sad-but-relieved-face/

userbinator 5y ago

I've never heard of "tone indicators" before, but I've seen the usage of "/s" for a long time to indicate sarcasm, possibly as early as the 90s.

411111111111111 5y ago
It was extremely frequently used on IRC back then Emojis as well, though they were pure ASCII, not the emoticons of today
- jazzyjackson 5y ago
  the ASCII faces are the emoticons, emoji means "picture character" and includes all the UTF8 cartoons.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - 411111111111111 5y ago
    both terms were coined after UTF-8 and after people started to replace the character strings like :) with pictures. emojis are technically the UTF-8 style emoticons, so you do have a point that i shouldn't call ascii style emoticons this, but its really a redundant distinction in my opinion. Especially as the term emoticon also applies to emojis/picture representations of ascii-style emoticons.
    - forgotpwd16 5y ago
      Unicode indeed has an emoticon block (referring to emojis with facial expression) but the term actually predates the very UTF-8 itself going back to early 80s. Emoji also predates its Unicode introduction originating from Japan in late 90s.
      - 411111111111111 5y ago
        what source do you have that the term 'emoticon' was coined in the 80th? As far as I know, the term was coined in the 90th. Please take note that i've - from the start, talked about the term, not the usage of punctuation to show faces
        sesqu 5y ago
        Here's a reference to the term from 1987: https://archive.org/details/ParalanguageInElectronicMail-ACaseStudy/page/n145/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/ParalanguageInElectronicMail-ACa...

Leparamour 5y ago

> https://toneindicators.carrd.co/ https://toneindicators.carrd.co/ Wow, they're actually using the term 'masterlist'. I'm pretty triggered right now. /s

paulddraper 5y ago
ikr should be 'mainlist'

robotron 5y ago

No /jk? What is this?

flanbiscuit 5y ago

Wow, I never knew there was a whole list of these! I love this, they are very clear. Usually searching through emoji I'll pick one purely based on how it looks and not realizing it really has a different meaning than I intended. For instance, I've used the 'sad-but-relieved-face'[1] emoji before but probably just to convey slightly sad and never to include the relieved part. In fact, I didn't know until I just went searching for emojis just now that it was meant to convey relief. 1. https://emojipedia.org/sad-but-relieved-face/ https://emojipedia.org/sad-but-relieved-face/