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I was also a holdout until I saw emojis described as "body language for text". That helps contextualize them and let me appreciate them. They let you add so muc
by sickcodebruh 3y ago
I was also a holdout until I saw emojis described as "body language for text". That helps contextualize them and let me appreciate them. They let you add so much nuance and personality to text. In a world of async communication, they can be crucial signifiers of intent.
- noman-land 3y agoI was just about to write this. Emoji not only takes the place of body language and facial expressions over a textual medium, but gifs and other pictograms are a whole linguistic and almost hieroglyphic medium of shared cultural communication.
- raincole 3y agoUnless you're specifically trained for that, it's very hard to fake body language and facial expression. That's the whole point to it. And it doesn't apply to emoji.