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Given the user ghuntley is claiming to be the author, and types with "<3" in their messages, it seems so? I feel like emoji's in conversation are a good middle

Given the user ghuntley is claiming to be the author, and types with "<3" in their messages, it seems so? I feel like emoji's in conversation are a good middle ground for the lack of body-language?

hbn 5y ago
I'm not knocking emojis across the board, I use them plenty in text conversations. But with something like, > I’ve been scrolling through your facebook page and would love to work with you. HN doesn't show emojis but in his email he puts a heart after the word "love." Which seems redundant and breaks up the sentence awkwardly
- Smaug123 5y ago
  I dunno - I'm definitely a language purist, and even so, I will admit that the emoji is not redundant. It causes the emphasis of the sentence to fall on the word "love", rather than "work". It has a similar effect to "I would *love* to work with you", but without the awkward plain-text formatting.
bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Sigh, newspeak (yeah I'm abusing the term)... You even have uptalk in text with 2 sentences ending in "?". People are going to downvote this because I'm going to sound (and be) patronising, but drop it, uptalk makes you sound not confident. Some guy whose girlfriend I follow on Facebook posts updates with emojis next to words, something like "We went up [Mountain emoji] Mount Cook today", etc. It's excruciating, the last time I saw something like this was when I was doing fill-in-the-blanks in kindergarten, where we had to add the words next to the picture hints, so when people write like that, yeah I think they're kindergartners.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
  > You even have uptalk in text with 2 sentences ending in "?". People are going to downvote this because I'm going to sound (and be) patronising, but drop it, uptalk makes you sound not confident. I'm pretty sure that's the point. Ending in a question mark is a way of marking that there are error bars and you're not 100% confident, just saying what you think is most likely the case.
  - bellyfullofbac 5y ago
    The 2 sentences are already hedged with "it seems so" and "I feel...". There is no need to uptalk it. "Not 100% confident", well, yeah, it shows. Is he sure he feels that way, or is he not confident how he feels about emojis?

Given the user ghuntley is claiming to be the author, and types with "<3" in their messages, it seems so? I feel like emoji's in conversation are a good middle ground for the lack of body-language?

hbn 5y ago

I'm not knocking emojis across the board, I use them plenty in text conversations. But with something like, > I’ve been scrolling through your facebook page and would love to work with you. HN doesn't show emojis but in his email he puts a heart after the word "love." Which seems redundant and breaks up the sentence awkwardly

Smaug123 5y ago
I dunno - I'm definitely a language purist, and even so, I will admit that the emoji is not redundant. It causes the emphasis of the sentence to fall on the word "love", rather than "work". It has a similar effect to "I would *love* to work with you", but without the awkward plain-text formatting.

bellyfullofbac 5y ago

Sigh, newspeak (yeah I'm abusing the term)... You even have uptalk in text with 2 sentences ending in "?". People are going to downvote this because I'm going to sound (and be) patronising, but drop it, uptalk makes you sound not confident. Some guy whose girlfriend I follow on Facebook posts updates with emojis next to words, something like "We went up [Mountain emoji] Mount Cook today", etc. It's excruciating, the last time I saw something like this was when I was doing fill-in-the-blanks in kindergarten, where we had to add the words next to the picture hints, so when people write like that, yeah I think they're kindergartners.

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
> You even have uptalk in text with 2 sentences ending in "?". People are going to downvote this because I'm going to sound (and be) patronising, but drop it, uptalk makes you sound not confident. I'm pretty sure that's the point. Ending in a question mark is a way of marking that there are error bars and you're not 100% confident, just saying what you think is most likely the case.
- bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  The 2 sentences are already hedged with "it seems so" and "I feel...". There is no need to uptalk it. "Not 100% confident", well, yeah, it shows. Is he sure he feels that way, or is he not confident how he feels about emojis?