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Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?

by j1000 4mo ago

dagmx 4mo ago
Simply because nobody has successfully pitched the Unicode group to add one. Anyone can pitch new emoji, they just have to go through the fairly easy but strict formal process.
- blanched 4mo ago
  Alex Schmidt, a humor writer (formerly of Cracked and others) did this process for the bison emoji. I enjoyed his “miniseries” about it: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/ https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/
  - basch 4mo ago
    does the reverse notebooklm exist yet that turns podcasts into longform journalism?
    - blanched 4mo ago
      Not that I know of. And I generally prefer written pieces to podcasts :). The show notes for episode 2 have good references (no fun commentary though): https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/show-notes https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/show-notes
wvbdmp 4mo ago
What’s next, a cowboy emoji? A ninja emoji? But seriously, as much as I like emojis, I kind of feel like they should stick to emotions. Maybe other intangible things. They’re hard to convey verbally (and succinctly), simple concrete nouns are good for a bit of fun and for UI icons, but really not very useful if we’re being honest. Unless you’re texting with a lizard, or my lazy elementary-school niece who shouldn’t really have a phone anyway…
- holistio 4mo ago
  Or you're texting with people whose native language uses a logographic system.
- customguy 4mo ago
  If we add 26 more emojis, one for each letter, we could use them to spell out all sorts of words - emotions, objects, anything!
  - jtolmar 4mo ago
    26 emojis? You could do the entire bestiary from the original Rogue with that!
  - frollogaston 4mo ago
    There are really 26 emoji letters that are used for spelling country codes in the flags, like https://emojipedia.org/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u https://emojipedia.org/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u
hbn 4mo ago
I was looking for a pirate emoji like 5 minutes ago. I'm sure it's not the first time but I'm super surprised that still isn't in there. Seems so obvious.
frollogaston 4mo ago
Well there's a pirate flag

Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?

by j1000 4mo ago

Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?

dagmx 4mo ago

Simply because nobody has successfully pitched the Unicode group to add one. Anyone can pitch new emoji, they just have to go through the fairly easy but strict formal process.

blanched 4mo ago
Alex Schmidt, a humor writer (formerly of Cracked and others) did this process for the bison emoji. I enjoyed his “miniseries” about it: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/ https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/
- basch 4mo ago
  does the reverse notebooklm exist yet that turns podcasts into longform journalism?
  - blanched 4mo ago
    Not that I know of. And I generally prefer written pieces to podcasts :). The show notes for episode 2 have good references (no fun commentary though): https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/show-notes https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/show-notes

wvbdmp 4mo ago

What’s next, a cowboy emoji? A ninja emoji? But seriously, as much as I like emojis, I kind of feel like they should stick to emotions. Maybe other intangible things. They’re hard to convey verbally (and succinctly), simple concrete nouns are good for a bit of fun and for UI icons, but really not very useful if we’re being honest. Unless you’re texting with a lizard, or my lazy elementary-school niece who shouldn’t really have a phone anyway…

holistio 4mo ago
Or you're texting with people whose native language uses a logographic system.
customguy 4mo ago
If we add 26 more emojis, one for each letter, we could use them to spell out all sorts of words - emotions, objects, anything!
- jtolmar 4mo ago
  26 emojis? You could do the entire bestiary from the original Rogue with that!
- frollogaston 4mo ago
  There are really 26 emoji letters that are used for spelling country codes in the flags, like https://emojipedia.org/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u https://emojipedia.org/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u

hbn 4mo ago

I was looking for a pirate emoji like 5 minutes ago. I'm sure it's not the first time but I'm super surprised that still isn't in there. Seems so obvious.

frollogaston 4mo ago

Well there's a pirate flag