Ok, the title was an overuse of emojis as a joke. But seriously, I like some limited use of emojis because it helps me convey intention/emotion so that I’m less misunderstood and also adds some more feeling/fun to text content 😄
I don’t have any fundamental issue with emojis when they’re used to expand meaning or provide clarity. Eg you could use an emotive emoji to show/clarify the intent/emotion of something. Imo, using emojis in this way is no different than the practice of adding a “/s” to denote sarcasm. When they get annoying is when they’re used superfluously; if they serve no purpose, then it’s just clutter.
For the same reason they don’t irrationally like the cyber truck.
They don’t know.
Ngl i use emojis whenever too, i dont think anyone “hates them”, ive seen other people use emoticons too [eg, “:)”]
I hate them. Words are easy enough to misunderstand or misconstrue. Emojis take that to an entire other level.
Probably first time I met a person who hates emojis
Because I’m a millennial semi-luddite who (typically) prefers emoticons.*
*Contrary to popular opinion, emoticons ≠ emoji.
:)is an emoticon, while🙂is an emoji. (Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. Lol.)(╯°□°)╯︵ 🤸
Lol, I like that. xD
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by definition they should really be the same though or at least both qualifying as emoticons. emoji are more icons than emoticons are, and the translation from japanese is literally just picture letter/symbol
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I never said emoticons are icons.
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Emoji are picture-like and each one is a single-glyph.
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Emoticons are not picture-like but resemble letters or punctuation, and are typically composed of multiple glyphs to make a coherent whole.
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I have nothing to add but Cartman
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YES, emoticons are so much better than emojis!
They’re objectively not.
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They are not objectively better or worse overall, though one or the other may be objectively better in individual contexts.
Individual people may prefer one over the other, though. I am one of them.
In what context where both are available are emoticons objectively better?
This one (o;)
Well, if you’re typing on a computer as opposed to a phone, for instance, it’s typically a lot easier to type out an emoticon as opposed to an emoji. Therefore, emoticons would likely be objectively better.
Likewise, if you’re typing on a smartphone, most people have an emoji drawer they can pop open in a jiffy and choose what they want.
Then again, even in both of these situations, it also depends on what crowd you’re in: some people honestly just prefer emoticons because it’s what they grew up with, like me; others prefer emoji, for varying reasons.
Most instances where one is objectively better suited than the other are based on subjective criteria.
To be fair, i dislike them everywhere
Even from the before times
Using them like the title here, I hate them too. You only need a few, and they should be conveying the same emotion that the text is being written as. 😮💨
They can be pretty good at expressing sarcasm. Especially the eye roll one.
“Yeah. Because that looks good. 🙄”
You only speak one language in a sentence right? How often do you switch between languages in a single sentence?
Emoji are pictograms the same as east Asian languages are pictograms.
You know many words in any language, are borrowed from other languages right? You just used a Japanese word when you said emoji.
Ik ben talking about using geen common words in a sentence.
That was a weird sentence right? Emoji has a common use in English where ik,ben, and geen do not.
What even is your point? Besides not acknowledging that language evolves.
It’s a loan word, it’s still English
While true that the term originates from Japanese, it’s important to note that emoji is a loanword that has been adapted into english by changing its pronunciation subtly, and replacing its spelling with a phonetically similar one in an alphabet not used in Japanese.
This is similar to when words and phrases are used without much adaptation in the middle of sentences that are otherwise in a different language. There’s a certain je ne sais quoi about English and how it mixes loanwords (such as “calque”), calques (such as “loanword”, where individual parts of the word are translated then recombined) and entire unchanged terms (such as “je ne sais quoi”) freely, and to varying degrees depending on where you are and who you talk to.
East Asian languages aren’t pictograms. Most use phonetic alphabets. Among those that don’t, very few characters use visual resemblance to convey meaning, and no language uses primarily pictographical characters.
I think of them like swear words. Not on-the-internet swearing, but public swearing. To use their full power, words like “fuck” need context and - more importantly - discretion and frugal usage.
Overuse of emojis is even easier and harder to look at. But when used right, they serve a purpose. Otherwise it’s “Why the fuck do users fucking dislike the fucking use of emojis on fucking Lemmy?”
I love them but that was a bit much. 🤨
I love them too 🙂
I love them too 🍆💦
I grew up with emoticons and find the colorful nature of them quite disruptive… but that might just be me *shrug*
I’m sooooo with you. Emoticons 4eva! And ASCII art.
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My keyboard doesn’t have enough Cs on it to properly express how thicc that is.
Hahaha it’s from a VERY NSFW animation, “Axel in Harlem.” It was a big meme on a subreddit I used to go to, that I can no longer remember the name off it was all sped up and had “Ballin’” by Roddy Rich pitched up as the background music. It’s a hoot. I can pull that ASCII art by typing “forgies”. I also have
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Aaaah sexy Flanders!
I usually always use : ) type of faces to give tone, but I used to use text like you did there for shrug, but I assumed it would alter the text due to underlying text editor like this
It does unless you proceed it with a backslash like \*
Yeah I assumed it was just html underneath it all. Test: <i>italics</I> <Strong>bold</strong>
It is eventually encoded into the DOM possibly via HTML or possibly through direct node creation but it’s more accurate to say it’s markdown.
Markdown, never heard the term, the m in html is markup I thought, it’s been years since I did any web design. 2006 I think is when I studied it, so I used notepad, and Dreamweaver was still owned by macromedia haha
Markdown and HTML are indeed both markup languages, markdown is one that was designed to align with a lot of internet text habits that emerged organically like using *s to create lists and ascii tables.
A reference is available here https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text
Oh cool thanks. I saw Div tags listed in there, does it natively support such or does that still fall into the css or JavaScript type of chunk.
Edit: nevermind, I bookmarked it, going to read through it all this weekend, could be fun to get more back into some old hobbies
Man, you hit the nail on the head for why emojis nag me, messages being monotone just makes it so much easier to parse.
My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.
Are you using the opendyslexic font?
This font is awesome, and I cannot fathom why Apple will not let me use it even in the Books app, much less anywhere else.
Because they didn’t want you to read the
traumaterms of service betterFather Apple protects us from all wickedness , including autonomy and any choice unconsidered by Him, mhm.
Comic Sans?
Often yes, though most sans serif fonts work well enough for me.
I looked into that font when I head about it. Peer reviewd studies seem to agree with you. It’s also mainly the size and reglar spacing that helps.
It definitely depends on the instance, but as a whole it’s probably a bit of carryover culture from the other place where emoji are not generally accepted.
I don’t mind them when used appropriately, but remember that us old people may struggle to make out which emoji we’re looking at when the text is small.
To my eyes it also looks out of place in professional writing, so I would find it hard to take you seriously if you use emojis in such a context.
TL;DR: in a casual context, go nuts, but avoid for important communication where clarity and professionalism matters.
Their intentionally bland, unpleasant to look at, and it makes you look like you just got on to the internet for the first time in your life.
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Because you look like a ratchet ass ghetto idiot using them.
That’s a fucked up way to say they distract you from reading text
