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The full stop thing has been around since IRC networks, or I imagine any quick-response short message platform. No one ever explicitly explains it or notes it,
by ehnto 4y ago
The full stop thing has been around since IRC networks, or I imagine any quick-response short message platform. No one ever explicitly explains it or notes it, you just pick up on it.
Same with the difference colours of laughter "lol, rofl, haha, hahaha, lmao, ha." They're all just laughing but I bet you had different ideas about how each of them feel. This happens with language at large, synonymous words pick up nuanced differences so that we can express ourselves better, they aren't codified they just spread naturally.
I think for full stops, it's like the difference between familiar language and polite language. If you are too polite with a close friend you give off the impression that you're not close enough for casual language, which can be insulting.
- butler14 4y agoLogged in to say the same; all of these have ultimately formed back in IRC days and have aged remarkably well since The only one that is new (and therefore annoying to me as an Old Internet Man) is the insistance of adding emojis into every sentence For a while I could guess someones approximate age because of it, but now some of my 40+ friends have started emojiing like a 14 year olds too
- aaron695 4y ago[dead]
- hollowcelery 4y agoEmojis are a more granular and expressive form of the more traditional lol, rofl, haha, :), :(. They’re a useful side channel for expressing tone.
- tjoff 4y agoThat isn't a feature though. As it means and renders completely different in different contexts and apps.
- _Algernon_ 4y agoThey're really not though, because they render differently on different devices. If I send a gun emoji, it may render as a squirt gun for you for instance. Very different meanings.
- AgrMohit 4y agowhile true, many platforms like whatsapp use their own emojis so you know that it looks the same to everyone
- throwaway98797 4y ago[flagged]
- _Algernon_ 4y agoThere exists a world outside of the US, you know.
- LoveMortuus 4y agoAlso the way I feel about certain emojis is different from how you feel about them and thus carry different (if slightly) meaning. For example, I pretty much never use the clown emoji as I find it personally offensive. But I'm sure that pretty much everyone else doesn't feel the same about it.
- illiac786 4y agoThe triumph emoji is a very good example of this. Westerners use it to signify they're pissed while it actually means triumph in Asia I believe.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoThey're a useful way to not take someone seriously.
- Jach 4y agoIt's been amusing to see the evolution of things like 'lol' in particular go from ubiquitous to very much frowned on and now back full circle to being a lot more common. I don't think "xD" and friends will come back though, especially with emojis.
- rom-antics 4y agoI've not seen "xD" in a long time, but I do see "xd" used as a less-intense version of "xD".
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoExcuse me, my friends and I (but mostly I) use xD and variations extensively. I actually stopped using it for a long time before unashamedly returning to it. It's just so easy compared to other shows of levity, AND it's scalable. xD is some levity. XDDDDDD is MORE levity. Like with :))))), except that's some psychotic boomer Russian shit. x3 adds a cuteness squee element to it. xP is more playful.
- amelius 4y agoThe absolutely annoying thing about emojis is that different platforms render them in different ways.
- FinnKuhn 4y agothis doesn't really matter though, because you still now the meaning of the Emoji. Letters also render different, depending on the font, without their meaning changing
- amelius 4y agoThis is not true. The actual form has meaning too. Extreme example: if someone sends a romantic message, they typically don't want it rendered in a font typically used for the title on a horror DVD.
- andsoitis 4y agodoes that commonly happen though? emoji exist in unicode so meaning should remain consistent. in fact, here is how popular emoji render across platforms: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
- amelius 4y agoIt doesn't matter. Communication is often sensitive enough to not mess with it in any way. And there is no reason why emoji could not be transmitted without mutations (their size is negligible).
- detourdog 4y agoI believe fullstop is from the telegram days.
- IncRnd 4y agoIt's from Aristophanes of Byzantium in the 3rd century BCE.
- popinman322 4y ago> I think for full stops, it's like the difference between familiar language and polite language. If you are too polite with a close friend you give off the impression that you're not close enough for casual language, which can be insulting. But it's also great for dry humor over text. Like when you switch to corporate-speak as a joke between friends: A: "Looks like our main factory just blew up" B: "Yes. Given the prevailing macroeconomic conditions, I felt that downsizing that factory was critical to actioning the quarterly plan." --- Or alternatively, when you're sending a flurry of messages and want to show that you're done with the thought: A: "Looks like things are improving" A: "Like, the RAM use just dropped by ~20%" A: "the GC probably just finished."
- mlindner 4y agoI was a longtime user of IRC networks and never saw people care about conveying messages with a full stop or lack of it. That just never had any part of it.
- airstrike 4y ago:).