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Do you think that would be more or less respectful than using your words to communicate in polite discourse?

jerojero 4y ago
Thinking emoji, shrugging person (genderless) emoji. Get used to it. Emojis, emotes, gifs, reaction images, these all add extra complexity to the way we communicate. Not everyone needs to be a writer; what's this thing about respect? Obviously I am being facetious because I believe you to have quite a strong and antiquated view of how language works. Written language always has had a visual component, languages like japanese have written words that comprise entire concepts and can be interpreted in many different ways (kind of like an image). But emojis also do something pretty remarkable in that they are very much universal, of course, people use certain emojis in different ways. But more often than not they can allow from context-based communication between people of different languages in a much simpler and straight forward way. Let me give you an example: You travel to Germany, you don't know German but you go into Grindr and you send hot face emoji, eggplant emoji, and a question mark to a guy. I assure you that, although crude, he will more or less get the message. In fact, symbols are already used in everyday language. More often than not, if I'm confused about something just sending a question mark (?) will be enough to express it. Sending several question marks (????) will communicate stronger confusion. Language is what we make of it, if you think reducing the need of using words to express complex ideas is bad then just send more emojis and you'll be communicating, in fewer space, more. How is that bad? On telegram, sometimes I communicate exclusively using stickers with certain friends. It seems to me like, maybe, you might be annoyed because communication has grown more complex than it used to be. People laugh at boomers not knowing how to use emojis.

Thinking emoji, shrugging person (genderless) emoji. Get used to it. Emojis, emotes, gifs, reaction images, these all add extra complexity to the way we communicate. Not everyone needs to be a writer; what's this thing about respect? Obviously I am being facetious because I believe you to have quite a strong and antiquated view of how language works. Written language always has had a visual component, languages like japanese have written words that comprise entire concepts and can be interpreted in many different ways (kind of like an image). But emojis also do something pretty remarkable in that they are very much universal, of course, people use certain emojis in different ways. But more often than not they can allow from context-based communication between people of different languages in a much simpler and straight forward way. Let me give you an example: You travel to Germany, you don't know German but you go into Grindr and you send hot face emoji, eggplant emoji, and a question mark to a guy. I assure you that, although crude, he will more or less get the message. In fact, symbols are already used in everyday language. More often than not, if I'm confused about something just sending a question mark (?) will be enough to express it. Sending several question marks (????) will communicate stronger confusion. Language is what we make of it, if you think reducing the need of using words to express complex ideas is bad then just send more emojis and you'll be communicating, in fewer space, more. How is that bad? On telegram, sometimes I communicate exclusively using stickers with certain friends. It seems to me like, maybe, you might be annoyed because communication has grown more complex than it used to be. People laugh at boomers not knowing how to use emojis.