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Technically they are pictograms, as ideograms refer to more abstract concepts (with some exceptions e.g. the representation of an ass by a peach..)
by 4gotunameagain 2y ago
Technically they are pictograms, as ideograms refer to more abstract concepts (with some exceptions e.g. the representation of an ass by a peach..)
- zarzavat 2y agoIt’s both. Each emoji has a pictographic meaning as defined by Unicode, but there’s also a language that has arisen contextually on social media. For example the “painting nails” emoji may refer to painting one’s nails, but it can also mean “whatever” as in “whatever you say I’m just painting my nails”. Or the skull emoji which has a variety of meanings relating to being metaphorically dead - “I’m dying from laughing”, “you’re fucked”, etc. There’s also the controversy over the acceptability or not of using the sobbing emoji to represent laughter.
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoyes, but emojis with more complex meanings are the exceptions. The vast majority are pictograms (when considering the total number of emojis)