Emoji 12.0 brings us waffles, more diversity, suggestive “finger pinch” glyph
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How many of these things are we going to have? Will we live in the science fiction future where no one can write or read, other than emojis? We’ve been seeing this day coming with all of the symbols used for internationally sold products.
Hey, maybe it’s a good thing. All other languages will disappear, and we’ll all have the same written one.
Hey, maybe it’s a good thing. All other languages will disappear, and we’ll all have the same written one.
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Somebody has to come up with a good way to find the emoji you want. There are already far too many to just scroll through, and the categories Apple uses on iOS don't help a lot.
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Why?
Seriously, why. I can understand the appeal of things like smiley faces and hearts to add emotional context to a text message. But I don't understand the utility of otters and red boxes. I don't even understand alleged "fun" in same.
Isn't the point to make it easier for a sender to make themselves understood? Well then, how does an ever-increasing selection of random art with no cultural iconic meaning help?
Or is this just keeping someone employed?
Seriously, why. I can understand the appeal of things like smiley faces and hearts to add emotional context to a text message. But I don't understand the utility of otters and red boxes. I don't even understand alleged "fun" in same.
Isn't the point to make it easier for a sender to make themselves understood? Well then, how does an ever-increasing selection of random art with no cultural iconic meaning help?
Or is this just keeping someone employed?
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70 different combinations for people holding hands. Gosh.
It's nice that (almost?) every couple can now painstakingly search for or construct the exact emoji that represents them best, but all I can think about as a software person is the testing workload!
It's nice that (almost?) every couple can now painstakingly search for or construct the exact emoji that represents them best, but all I can think about as a software person is the testing workload!
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At some point, it will become easier to learn (written) Chinese than this new emoji language.
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just add emojis for all body parts and cut past 'suggestive' so people can make porn
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What I want is a platform that doesn't insert the picture but instead puts brackets around the name of the picture. I usually have no idea what message is being conveyed to me but if I at least knew what the glyphs were, I might be able to extract the meaning.
And really, by the time you've searched through 3,000 pictures, wouldn't it have just been faster to type what you're trying to express?
Oh, and Get off my lawn!
And really, by the time you've searched through 3,000 pictures, wouldn't it have just been faster to type what you're trying to express?
Oh, and Get off my lawn!
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At some point, it seems less informative to count the total number of emojis and more informative to try to 'bin' them in some content-aware way. In most contexts, I don't count Arial 'k' and Courier New 'k' as separate characters, even though there are situations where one is more appropriate than the other. Similarly, Simpsons-yellow thumbs-up and various actual human skin color thumbs-ups are conveying basically the same message.
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To turn this around and come full circle, we're just returning to the hieroglyphs of the ancient world.
It's my understanding that Richard Dean Anderson is pretty stoked about this.
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I saw that in a documentary about the future of the United States. I wonder what version of Emoji adds the hospital interface icons.
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U+1F468 or U+1F469, U+200D, U+1F9AF
Sometimes it feels like the unicode consortium ran out of work, and decided to have some fun.
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Slack does this as a hover-over! I find this substantially increases my team's usage of emojis. And in some uses, emojis are great -- my boss knows exactly what I mean if I thumbs-up a request, and nobody has to try to think about wording or read anything into anything. It's just an 'acknowledged, will do' in a single click.
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Electrostatus
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Which is funny, because I recall reading somewhere that hieroglyphs represented sounds, like the current alphabet, and not ideas
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More diversity emojis of couples holding hands. And I'm throwing up at this new batch...because they're those sick couples who wear matching clothes!
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Yes, well I don't actually need someone to translate a 'thumbs-up' or a 'smiley.' The basics I've got.
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It is the year 5000 and a woman with a wide brimmed hat (of what was formerly made of dried cowskin) enters the dingy all-glass chamber. In front of her is a metal tablet that, after all these years, somehow still has power. The world remembers very little of the early 21st Century as global warming and the wars it brought on scattered humanity to the four corners of the earth. It's been a long road just getting a semblance of normality back to daily human life and she's one of the first people to be able to simply perform a task she finds interesting and fun.
"All these things" she breathes, "the museum I will create..." she trails off as she notices the tablet with one LED slowly blinking. She dusts it off with her brush and notices the imprint on the bottom "I wonder..." as she presses it with her finger. The tablet's screen flashes, bright as day and twice as glaring as any artificial light she has ever seen before, and she sees an inscription on the screen before her. "Fascinating. 21st Century humans must only have used text for formal communications" the screen is filled with messages between someone called "Ben" and "Ashley". They were all in a form of glyph that no human had seen for over two millennia. The most recent read:
Ben:
Ashley:
Ben:
Ben:
Ashley:
Ashley:
Ben:
"All these things" she breathes, "the museum I will create..." she trails off as she notices the tablet with one LED slowly blinking. She dusts it off with her brush and notices the imprint on the bottom "I wonder..." as she presses it with her finger. The tablet's screen flashes, bright as day and twice as glaring as any artificial light she has ever seen before, and she sees an inscription on the screen before her. "Fascinating. 21st Century humans must only have used text for formal communications" the screen is filled with messages between someone called "Ben" and "Ashley". They were all in a form of glyph that no human had seen for over two millennia. The most recent read:
Ben:
Ashley:
Ben:
Ben:
Ashley:
Ashley:
Ben:
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Not really. Costco is about bulk, not selection. If you need, say, a box of 1,000 heart emojis then Costco can help you.
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Definitely "almost"
Three genders, (and also two genders) forces the number of combinations to be divisible by three. There are in fact 70 icons displayed (71 if you count the larger one that seems to be the one selected), so some combinations are either repeated, or not included.
Either way, that means the holding hands emojis are still biased somehow.
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Wow, I thought its been pretty unnecessary for while. I'm pretty sure I have only ever needed:
Edit: lollers, of course UBB converted it to smiley gifs with out me really thinking about it.
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and the occasional ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Edit: lollers, of course UBB converted it to smiley gifs with out me really thinking about it.
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5000 years ago we wrote on walls with pictures and worshipped cats too.
I guess we've come full circle.
I guess we've come full circle.
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I bet that Emoji Movie would be more successful than the one already made.
I don't get emojis. My wife loves them, and more often than not I ask what she meant, then she explains, and usually involves way more typing than just using the damn words in the first place.
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Snarky Robot
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It may be the placement next to the artificial arm, but one of those wheelchairs also looks like it's giving a thumbs up.
In all seriousness, I think adding options for more people is good. I'm not a huge emoji user, but it's also not all that big a deal for me that others use them. I remember T9 texting and the silly arguments and "guides" to acronyms that popped up for parents, and the attendant panic. That seemed absurd to me at the time. It seems equally absurd, to me, to react to this change with anything stronger than
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Communication evolves. You don't have to use it. You don't have to be bothered by it, either.
In all seriousness, I think adding options for more people is good. I'm not a huge emoji user, but it's also not all that big a deal for me that others use them. I remember T9 texting and the silly arguments and "guides" to acronyms that popped up for parents, and the attendant panic. That seemed absurd to me at the time. It seems equally absurd, to me, to react to this change with anything stronger than
.Communication evolves. You don't have to use it. You don't have to be bothered by it, either.
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Wait, I thought we had modifiers in emoji now? So there could be a generic couple thing, and with sex and skin color modifiers display the combination we want. why do they need to be added extra? Did I understand something incorrectly?
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I saw that in a documentary about the future of the United States. I wonder what version of Emoji adds the hospital interface icons.
Top row, fifth from the left. There's a hospital button for nipple clamps? Cool...
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How many words are there in the English language? No one complains about the size of the dictionary.
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I saw that in a documentary about the future of the United States. I wonder what version of Emoji adds the hospital interface icons.
Top row, fifth from the left. There's a hospital button for nipple clamps? Cool...
Given the context I think it means "I have a nipple clamp related injury".
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Putrid Polecat
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Still no penis, vagina and asshole emoji. I mean, it's kind of the elephant in the room.
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Who the fuck is going to spend 10 minutes finding the exact color combination of them and their partner? Can we just go back to Simpsons colored dumb smiley faces? Why are we going backwards from written languages to fucking pictograms.
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I really don't get emojis at all. I will occasionally use old-school emoji like a smilie 
to indicate tone of voice, but that's only a couple of characters and does not require searching through dozens of screens. When someone sends me a text or SMS full of emojis, I often can't parse their meaning, and wish they'd just use words like an adult. I had no patience for "LOL" and that sort of crap when it was popular, and I can only hope emojis will be used in future fiction to indicate the story is set in the depths of the intellectual dark ages, before the days of modern education and mental hygiene.
to indicate tone of voice, but that's only a couple of characters and does not require searching through dozens of screens. When someone sends me a text or SMS full of emojis, I often can't parse their meaning, and wish they'd just use words like an adult. I had no patience for "LOL" and that sort of crap when it was popular, and I can only hope emojis will be used in future fiction to indicate the story is set in the depths of the intellectual dark ages, before the days of modern education and mental hygiene.
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