Also the incredibly annoying use of emojis everywhere turning every document into a children's book.
>Also the incredibly annoying use of emojis everywhere turning every document into a children's book...
I've been grumbling about and steadfastly refusing to use, emojis [and fucking TXT SPK] since forever. And I usually get downvoted into oblivion by people implying that I'm a miserable sod, or have no sense of humour. No. I'm just availing of the fact that human communication skills are supposed to have evolved beyond grunts and cave paintings.
Seriously. I've seen entire conversations on Twatter, Facebook and the like, where the whole lengthy "dialogue" has consisted of nothing more than bloody amojis and LOL, ROFL, LMAO type texting acronyms.
George Orwell had the right idea about a future where people were unable to use the language to communicate in any meaningful way. His only mistake was calling it Newspeak instead of Socialmediaspeak
I see emoji in docs and code and it helps. It can be abused … like any other … literary device.
To a youngster this simply means: grandma "deadass" (i.e. actually) slept through the entire movie.
To your parent: grandma died in the cinema.
Just look at the different ways a skull can be represented depending on your devices https://emojipedia.org/skull/
Notice how different they are. I prefer using kaomoji more because:
1. its way more creative, 2. its consistent across devices (way more, anyways)
this sleeping kaomoji like "(_ _ ) . . z Z" will probably be rendered in the same way for 99.99% of the people that see it throughout the text's lifetime.