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> There is already an emoji for frog, which can be used to represent all amphibians. I'm not a big fan of this example. Does "lizard" represent all reptiles?
by dmonitor 2y ago
> There is already an emoji for frog, which can be used to represent all amphibians.
I'm not a big fan of this example. Does "lizard" represent all reptiles? "dog" all mammals? I suppose salamanders are taxonomically similar enough to lizards that specific amphibian emoji aren't necessary for them, but that's not the reason given.
- rsynnott 2y agoOnce they open the door to other amphibians, they will end up getting drawn into the whole "do toads exist" debate, and it frankly just isn't worth it.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoLyra Belacqua would have been a master emoji texter.
- bombcar 2y agoWe already have combining characters (for example you can make emojis with various skin shades) and they should enable “alternates” for other emojis. Let there be ten thousand cat breed emojis via combining characters!
- rsynnott 2y agoThis is, IIRC, how the lime works; according to the Unicode consortium, a lime is a green lemon. (It would be much more fun if they'd just represented them as citrus hybrids with ZWJs.)
- zahlman 2y agoTo be fair, the genetics of all the various citrus species are pretty wild (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy).