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What's your opinion on this current change of meaning? The previous one has now been in use for 6 years, many messages are about to change meaning, this time i
by itishappy 2y ago
What's your opinion on this current change of meaning?
The previous one has now been in use for 6 years, many messages are about to change meaning, this time in potentially quite negative ways.
Follow-up: What's your opinion on the word "woke"? Do you still use the original agreed upon definition from AAVE, or do you prefer the way conservatives have mutated our language? (The question is rhetorical, but I hope you see the point I'm making.)
- kortilla 2y agoThe definition from AAVE is definitely not original. It’s a mutated version as well. The gun emoji had existed as a gun before as well for that many years. Nobody cared about rewriting text history on that change either.
- itishappy 2y agoI think we remember that differently. At the time I recall people caring quite a lot. You can find articles written about it on just about every mainstream media organization. I'm still a bit unclear on your position towards the current changes. Your post makes it sound like you oppose changes in general, but your tone makes me think it's specific to the change from 2016. How do you feel about the current changes?
- kortilla 2y agoPeople cared, but not the people making the changes. I think the change back is good and we should very strongly push for immutable emoji. The first one was a massive mistake and years of using the squirt gun doesn’t justify it.