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Also the incredibly annoying use of emojis everywhere turning every document into a children's book.

parentheses 4y ago
Don’t be salty about emoji. They’re the addendum to the alphabet in our modern computing world. I see emoji in docs and code and it helps. It can be abused … like any other … literary device.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  The outbreak of disturbing Bing AI responses with their heavy sprinkling of emoji definitely gives a negative impression. As you say, it’s emoji abuse.
- kajaktum 4y ago
  Disagree. The problem with emoji is that it relies on the "font" used too heavily. What's worse is that these "fonts" are controlled by the device that you use. My prime example of this is the skull emoji, imagine sending your mom this: "grandma :skull: sleep during the movie". To a youngster this simply means: grandma "deadass" (i.e. actually) slept through the entire movie. To your parent: grandma died in the cinema. Just look at the different ways a skull can be represented depending on your devices https://emojipedia.org/skull/ https://emojipedia.org/skull/ Notice how different they are. I prefer using kaomoji more because: 1. its way more creative, 2. its consistent across devices (way more, anyways) this sleeping kaomoji like "(_ _ ) . . z Z" will probably be rendered in the same way for 99.99% of the people that see it throughout the text's lifetime.
ClapperHeid 4y ago
>Also the incredibly annoying use of emojis everywhere turning every document into a children's book... Halleleuhjah! --I've found a friend. I've been grumbling about and steadfastly refusing to use, emojis [and fucking TXT SPK] since forever. And I usually get downvoted into oblivion by people implying that I'm a miserable sod, or have no sense of humour. No. I'm just availing of the fact that human communication skills are supposed to have evolved beyond grunts and cave paintings. Seriously. I've seen entire conversations on Twatter, Facebook and the like, where the whole lengthy "dialogue" has consisted of nothing more than bloody amojis and LOL, ROFL, LMAO type texting acronyms. George Orwell had the right idea about a future where people were unable to use the language to communicate in any meaningful way. His only mistake was calling it Newspeak instead of Socialmediaspeak
- bitwize 4y ago
  Get used to it. We are entering into an era when using full stops at the end of sentences is no longer appropriate; it is considered curt and rude (and potentially "cheugy"? still don't know if that word is an actual thing) among the young set to do so.

Don’t be salty about emoji. They’re the addendum to the alphabet in our modern computing world. I see emoji in docs and code and it helps. It can be abused … like any other … literary device.

lostlogin 4y ago
The outbreak of disturbing Bing AI responses with their heavy sprinkling of emoji definitely gives a negative impression. As you say, it’s emoji abuse.
kajaktum 4y ago
Disagree. The problem with emoji is that it relies on the "font" used too heavily. What's worse is that these "fonts" are controlled by the device that you use. My prime example of this is the skull emoji, imagine sending your mom this: "grandma :skull: sleep during the movie". To a youngster this simply means: grandma "deadass" (i.e. actually) slept through the entire movie. To your parent: grandma died in the cinema. Just look at the different ways a skull can be represented depending on your devices https://emojipedia.org/skull/ https://emojipedia.org/skull/ Notice how different they are. I prefer using kaomoji more because: 1. its way more creative, 2. its consistent across devices (way more, anyways) this sleeping kaomoji like "(_ _ ) . . z Z" will probably be rendered in the same way for 99.99% of the people that see it throughout the text's lifetime.

ClapperHeid 4y ago

>Also the incredibly annoying use of emojis everywhere turning every document into a children's book... Halleleuhjah! --I've found a friend. I've been grumbling about and steadfastly refusing to use, emojis [and fucking TXT SPK] since forever. And I usually get downvoted into oblivion by people implying that I'm a miserable sod, or have no sense of humour. No. I'm just availing of the fact that human communication skills are supposed to have evolved beyond grunts and cave paintings. Seriously. I've seen entire conversations on Twatter, Facebook and the like, where the whole lengthy "dialogue" has consisted of nothing more than bloody amojis and LOL, ROFL, LMAO type texting acronyms. George Orwell had the right idea about a future where people were unable to use the language to communicate in any meaningful way. His only mistake was calling it Newspeak instead of Socialmediaspeak

bitwize 4y ago
Get used to it. We are entering into an era when using full stops at the end of sentences is no longer appropriate; it is considered curt and rude (and potentially "cheugy"? still don't know if that word is an actual thing) among the young set to do so.