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Your Japan comment is a bit strange considering that the Japanese writing system itself uses Kanji which are effectively the OG emoji (well really Chinese is th
by jeffwass 2y ago
Your Japan comment is a bit strange considering that the Japanese writing system itself uses Kanji which are effectively the OG emoji (well really Chinese is the true OG and emoji are more of a modern take on kanji/Chinese pictographs).
That said, why is a Japanese sentence written using one set of pictographs respectable and proper, but another set of pictographs means the writer is in kindergarten?
- debugnik 2y agoOne is a writing system that depicts concepts with classy strokes and has thousands of years of history; the other is a bunch of redundant Fisher-Price looking drawings without semantics added to Unicode by a corporate committee.
- fsckboy 2y agoChinese writing is the OG wrt Japanese kanji, but it is preceded (independently) by Egyptian hieroglyphs, which, if you want to compare OG-emojis, I submit for your evaluation 𓂸 and 𓂺 as being better eggplants than an eggplant